On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 02:51:32PM -0800, Jian Cai wrote:
> Dear Stable kernel maintainers,
>
> Please consider cherry picking the following commits (ordered by commit
> time) ino linux-5.4.y.
>
> ffedeeb780dc linkage: Introduce new macros for assembler symbols
>
> 35e61c77ef38 arm64: asm: Add new-style position independent function
> annotations
>
> 3ac0f4526dfb arm64: lib: Use modern annotations for assembly functions
>
> ec9d78070de9 arm64: Change .weak to SYM_FUNC_START_WEAK_PI for
> arch/arm64/lib/mem*.S
>
> The first three are required to apply the last patch. This would unblock
> Chrome OS to build with LLVM's integrated assembler (Please see
> http://crbug.com/1143847 for details).
I've done this, but does this also provide this functionality for x86?
thanks,
greg k-h