Re: [PATCH 3/4] build: also check for empty .bss.* in .o -> .init.o conversion

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

On 07.08.2020 17:12, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 07/08/2020 11:56, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> On 06.08.2020 18:16, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>>> On 06/08/2020 10:05, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>> Can't we remove all of this by having CONFIG_XEN_PE expressed/selectable
>>> properly in Kconfig, and gathering all the objects normally, rather than
>>> bodging all of common/efi/ through arch/efi/ ?
>> _If_ we settle on Kconfig to be allowed to check compiler (and linker)
>> features, then yes. This continues to be a pending topic though, so
>> the switch can't be made like this at this point in time. (It could be
>> made a Kconfig item now - which, when enabled, implies the assertion
>> that a capable tool chain is in use.)
> 
> I am still of the opinion that nothing needs discussing, but you are
> obviously not.
> 
> Please raise this as a topic and lets discuss it, because it has a
> meaningful impacting on a large number of pending series.

Preferably I would have put this on this month's community meeting
agenda, but I'll be ooo next week, so that's not going to help, I'm
afraid. I guess I should put it up in email form when I'm back,
albeit I wasn't thinking it should need to be me to start the
discussion. Instead my view was that such a discussion should (have
been, now after-the-fact) be started by whoever wants to introduce
a new feature. You did say this was discussed in Chicago, but while
I'm pretty sure I was in all relevant sessions, I don't think this
can have been mentioned more than just in passing.

Jan