linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v1 0/8] x86/init: Linux linker tables

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Date:	Fri, 22 Jan 2016 08:15:36 +0000
From:	Michael Brown <mcb30@...e.org>
To:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>
CC:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
	Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>, joro@...tes.org,
	Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>,
	andreyknvl@...gle.com, long.wanglong@...wei.com,
	qiuxishi@...wei.com, aryabinin@...tuozzo.com,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@....samsung.com>,
	Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@...il.com>,
	Peter Senna Tschudin <peter.senna@...il.com>,
	X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>,
	"xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com" <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
	Michael Matz <matz@...e.de>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC v1 0/8] x86/init: Linux linker tables

On 21/01/16 21:37, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 12:33:43PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> Sure, do we know if that ICC compatible? Do we care? There are a
>> series of ICC hacks put in place on ipxe's original solution which
>> I've folded in, it seems that works but if we care about ICC those
>> folks should perhaps help review as well.
>
> I didn't know the kernel could even be compiled with ICC? Thought
> only GCC worked?
>
> Anyhow - it may be that those fixes were for quite old ICC versions.
> Does the latest one manifest these oddities?

I haven't tested building iPXE with icc for some time.  (The support for 
icc was originally added with the plan to be able to compile to EFI Byte 
Code; this plan was swiftly abandoned.)

The most recent version of icc that I have personally used with that 
code was 10.1.018.

Michael