On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 13:36:49 +0930
Joel Stanley <j...@jms.id.au> wrote:
> This effectively reverts 7563dc645853 ("powerpc: Work around gcc's
> -fno-omit-frame-pointer bug"), a workaround for a bug in GCC 4.1.3 when
> building 2.6.26 kernel.
>
> The flag is not supported by clang, but reading the history of the
> bug[1] suggests it is no longer required by supported GCC versions, with
> GCC 4.6 now being the minimum.
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11414
> Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <j...@jms.id.au>
> ---
> Last time this was proposed there was an issue reported:
>
> https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2014-September/121214.html
>
> If some machines still have an issue, we could instead wrap this in a
> flag check.
I don't think we can remove it completely because up to at least 4.6
maybe 4.8 has problems.
I have a few patches lying around I started looking at this... I'll
send them.
Thanks,
Nick
