[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 4/4] linux: config.in: add comment for Arm Cortex-M

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Thu May 31 12:20:28 UTC 2018


Hello Christophe,

Thanks for coming up with a patch series for this issue.

On Thu, 31 May 2018 12:09:42 +0000, Christophe PRIOUZEAU wrote:
> When binutils > 2.28 are selected on Arm Cortex-M cpu,
> linux kernel does not boot due to a new implementation
> of 'adr pseudo instruction' on binutils.
> 
> Bugzilla thread: https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=11051
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Priouzeau <christophe.priouzeau at st.com>
> ---
> Changes v1 -> v2
>  - correct depends on for comment
> 
>  linux/Config.in | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/linux/Config.in b/linux/Config.in
> index 73a3299..04d4548 100644
> --- a/linux/Config.in
> +++ b/linux/Config.in
> @@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ config BR2_LINUX_KERNEL
>  
>  if BR2_LINUX_KERNEL
>  
> +comment "Linux kernel will not boot with binutils >= 2.29"
> +	depends on !BR2_ARMV7M

So this comment will never appear on ARMv7M, which is exactly the
opposite of what we want. Did you test this ? Did you verify that the
comment actually appears when expected ?

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com



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