[PATCH] arm64: remove special treatment for the link order of head.o

Will Deacon will at kernel.org
Mon Nov 7 11:08:36 PST 2022


On Thu, 13 Oct 2022 08:35:00 +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> In the previous discussion (see the Link tag), Ard pointed out that
> arm/arm64/kernel/head.o does not need any special treatment - the only
> piece that must appear right at the start of the binary image is the
> image header which is emitted into .head.text.
> 
> The linker script does the right thing to do. The build system does
> not need to manipulate the link order of head.o.
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/kbuild), thanks!

[1/1] arm64: remove special treatment for the link order of head.o
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/994b7ac1697b

Cheers,
-- 
Will

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