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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 12/28/25 15:27, Randy Dunlap wrote: > -# Bug fix for binutils: this option is required in order to keep > -# binutils from generating NOPL instructions against our will. > -ifneq ($(CONFIG_X86_P6_NOP),y) > -cflags-y += $(call cc-option,-Wa$(comma)-mtune=generic32,) > -endif Isn't this adding the cflags when CONFIG_X86_P6_NOP is _not_ =y? Isn't this the case now that X86_P6_NOP has been zapped from the tree? Doesn't that make the straightforward "fix" to just remove the reference to CONFIG_X86_P6_NOP, but leave the cflags-y like this? -ifneq ($(CONFIG_X86_P6_NOP),y) cflags-y += $(call cc-option,-Wa$(comma)-mtune=generic32,) -endif It's either that or I'm reading the Makefile logic backwards (wouldn't be the first time :).