Announce: rmk's nightly builder gets ARM64 support

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 09:40:35AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 09:24:39AM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > Yes, this looks like a GCC problem, not binutils, since there are
> > other .S files in the same folder that contain crypto instructions
> > that build fine. This particular one is a .c file with AES
> > instructions in inline asm() (and we pass -march=armv8-a+crypto)
> 
> Maybe we need to get jk's blog post updated - it's currently on of
> the top hits in google, so this is probably going to trip up a lot of
> people if they follow the instructions there.
> 
> http://jk.ozlabs.org/docs/arm64-toolchain/
> 
> So it sounds like possibly the binutils part of those instructions is
> fine, it's the gcc part which isn't.

Note that it would also be useful to know where to get a working gcc
from (preferably in source form - I doubt there's any Fedora 14
binaries around.)

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