On Sat, Dec 06, 2014 at 05:23:59PM +0000, Alexander Graf wrote: > On 04.12.14 19:20, Will Deacon wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 03:46:33PM +0000, Alexander Graf wrote: > >> With binutils 2.25 the default alignment for 32bit arm sections changed to > >> have everything 64k aligned. Armv7 binaries built with this binutils > >> version > >> run successfully on an arm64 system. > >> > >> Since effectively there is now the chance to run armv7 code on arm64 even > >> with 64k page size, it doesn't make sense to block people from enabling > >> CONFIG_COMPAT on those configurations. > > > > Is there a distro available that is built with a recent enough binutils for > > this? I'd really like to run our regression tests to check that page-size > > assumptions don't exist for things like shm. > > So how much of a distro do you need? I could probably assemble a simple > very minimalistic rootfs with only bash if that helps.
I'd like to run LTP, so I'd probably need slightly more than that but I certainly don't need the whole world. Will -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/