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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] arm64: keep .altinstructions and
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On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 11:58:27AM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> So yes please if it's not too much trouble, could you remove
> the "gold" name from the generic patch and put it at the front
> of the series with this arm64 patch.

Sure, I'll do this in v2.

> Possibly then you could also do a 3rd patch to allow arm64 to
> select it if it's working with gcc?

These patches only fix the issues I ran into with clang and gold
when testing on a single device.  I feel like more testing would
be needed before enabling this by default for arm64.

Sami