linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86: Allow building 16-bit code with -m16 with toolchains that support it

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Message-ID: <1390352050.20480.220.camel@i7.infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 22 Jan 2014 00:54:10 +0000
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	x86@...nel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, llvmlinux@...ts.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86: Allow building 16-bit code with -m16 with
 toolchains that support it

On Wed, 2014-01-08 at 11:21 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> I have this working with LLVM/Clang, and a PR is filed for GCC because
> the current hacks we have to do to *try* to ensure that .code16gcc is
> the first thing in the asm output are horrid.

This is now all merged into LLVM/clang upstream, and the kernel's 16-bit
startup code should build fine with these patches.

-- 
dwmw2

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