[Buildroot] [PATCH] arch: drop now useless support for FDPIC

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Mon May 21 19:58:40 UTC 2018


Hello,

On Mon, 21 May 2018 18:17:06 +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Now that we dropped support for blackfin, we no longer have any
> architecture that supports FDPIC, so BR2_ARCH_HAS_FDPIC_SUPPORT
> is never selected, so we can't select BR2_BINFMT_FDPIC.
> 
> Drop all of that now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>

When I dropped Blackfin support, I wondered about dropping FDPIC
support. But I know people are working on FDPIC support on ARM, so I
wasn't sure it was useful to drop it now, and re-add it later on.

Thomas
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