[PATCH v2] arm64: Enable CONFIG_COMPAT also for 64k page size

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Thu Dec 4 15:49:27 PST 2014


On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de> 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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de>

Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net>


-Olof



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