On 19 June 2018 at 22:32, Guenter Roeck <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 09:26:31PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >> Work around the mindless and backward incompatible change in GAS that >> prevents us from using a simple addition to set the Thumb bit in local >> symbol references taken using 'adr' instructions (#2) >> >> As a preparatory step, remove badr occurrences in ARM code sequences >> contained in Thumb2 kernels. >> >> Ard Biesheuvel (2): >> ARM: avoid badr macro for switching to Thumb-2 mode >> ARM: assembler: prevent ADR from setting the Thumb bit twice >> > > This doesn't work for images built with a toolchain based on gcc 7.3.0 > and binutils 2.28.1. It _does_ work for images built with gcc 7.3.0/ > binutils 2.30. >
Sigh. So does it fail? Or is the resulting binary broken?

