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Date:   Wed, 17 Jul 2019 09:57:01 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kbuild: Fail if gold linker is detected
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On Wed, 17 Jul 2019, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 4:47 AM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> > So instead of dealing with attempts to duct tape gold support without
> > understanding the root cause and without support from the gold folks, fail
> > the build when gold is detected.
> >
> 
> The code looks OK in the build system point of view.
> 
> Please let me confirm this, just in case:
> For now, we give up all architectures, not only x86, right?

Well, that's the logical consequence of a statement which says: don't use
gold for the kernel.

> I have not not heard much from other arch maintainers.

Cc'ed linux-arch for that matter.

Thanks,

	tglx