Hi Ilias, On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM Ilias Apalodimas <[email protected]> wrote: > > Our last sync with the kernel was 5.1. Even that was a partial one > as some patches from 4.x kernels were already missing making the > transition to a modern kbuild infeasible. > > We are so out of sync now, that tracking the patches and backporting > them one by one makes little sense and it's going to take ages. > > This is an attempt to sync up Makefile[.lib/.kbuild]. > Unfortunately due to sheer amount of patches this is not easy to review, > but that's what we decided during a community call. > > One of the biggest changes is get rid of partial linking entirely and > build .a archives isntead of .o. > We diaviate from the kernel on that. Instead of calling a custom script > to create the archive symbol table, we call ar with rcTP (isntead of > rcSTP) since we want a resulting archive that's sauble with the linker. > > The only affected platforms are PPC ones. Unfortunately I don't have any > of them around to test, but the objdump of the resulting files -- > arch/powerpc/lib/built-in.[oa] looks identical. > > Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas <[email protected]>
This commit breaks the mx6sabresd_defconfig build on my Ubuntu 2022.04 machine: $ make mx6sabresd_defconfig HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o YACC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c LEX scripts/kconfig/zconf.lex.c HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf # # configuration written to .config # $ make scripts/kconfig/conf --syncconfig Kconfig UPD include/config.h CFG u-boot.cfg GEN include/autoconf.mk GEN include/autoconf.mk.dep CFG spl/u-boot.cfg GEN spl/include/autoconf.mk make: *** arch/arm/mach-imx/: Is a directory. Stop.
