[PATCH 1/7] ARM: disallow combining XIP and LTO

Nicolas Pitre nicolas.pitre at linaro.org
Mon Mar 12 10:05:31 PDT 2018


On Mon, 12 Mar 2018, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Mar 2018, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
> > arm-linux-gnueabi-nm: 'arch/arm/boot/compressed/../../../../vmlinux':
> > No such file
> 
> That is weird. The Makefile has:
> 
> cmd_mkxip = $(cmd_objcopy) && $(cmd_deflate_xip_data)
> 
> $(obj)/xipImage: vmlinux FORCE
>         $(call if_changed,mkxip)
> 
> So the objcopy must succeed at producing vmlinux for deflate_xip_data 
> (where nm is used) to be called.

Correction: vmlinux is a dependency not a product, so it must be there 
for this rule to be executed, and it is input to both objcopy and nm.


Nicolas



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