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From:   Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Date:   Mon, 29 Nov 2021 09:13:49 +0530
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] KVM: selftests: Add EXTRA_CFLAGS in top-level Makefile
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc:     Anup Patel <anup.patel@wdc.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
        Atish Patra <atishp@atishpatra.org>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
        Alistair Francis <Alistair.Francis@wdc.com>,
        KVM General <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
        kvm-riscv@lists.infradead.org,
        linux-riscv <linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
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On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 9:45 PM Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/26/21 16:40, Anup Patel wrote:
> > We add EXTRA_CFLAGS to the common CFLAGS of top-level Makefile
> > which will allow users to pass additional compile-time flags such
> > as "-static".
>
> Is this just for debugging?  I cannot understand if it's used in patch 4.

Yes, this is just for debugging.

I am using it to add selftests ELFs to any arbitrary initrd so that I can
try selftests on Spike, FPGA, or even HW simulators.

Regards,
Anup

>
> Paolo
>