[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 2/2] arm: work around assembler bug

[Allen Martin]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 08:08:31AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> On 07/18/2012 11:06 PM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> > Hi Allen,
> > 
> > On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:45:53 -0700, Allen Martin <amartin at nvidia.com> wrote:
> >> Disable sibling call optimization based on binutils version.  This is
> >> to work around a bug in the assember in binutils versions < 2.22.
> >> Branches to weak symbols can be incorrectly optimized in thumb mode to
> >> a short branch (b.n instruction) that won't reach when the symbol gets
> >> preempted.
> >>
> >> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12532
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Allen Martin <amartin at nvidia.com>


> > Can previous reviewers ack or test this? I would like to have it in the ARM
> > master branch in time for 12.07.
> 
> Acked-by: Tom Rini <trini at ti.com>

Hi Albert, just checking on the status of applying this to
u-boot-arm.  I have a patch series to enable thumb for tegra that
needs this.  I'll probably just keep a copy of this in that series
until it goes in.

thanks,
-Allen

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