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    arm64: remove no-op -p linker flag · 1a381d4a
    Greg Hackmann authored
    Linking the ARM64 defconfig kernel with LLVM lld fails with the error:
    
      ld.lld: error: unknown argument: -p
      Makefile:1015: recipe for target 'vmlinux' failed
    
    Without this flag, the ARM64 defconfig kernel successfully links with
    lld and boots on Dragonboard 410c.
    
    After digging through binutils source and changelogs, it turns out that
    -p is only relevant to ancient binutils installations targeting 32-bit
    ARM.  binutils accepts -p for AArch64 too, but it's always been
    undocumented and silently ignored.  A comment in
    ld/emultempl/aarch64elf.em explains that it's "Only here for backwards
    compatibility".
    
    Since this flag is a no-op on ARM64, we can safely drop it.
    Acked-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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