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[PATCH 2/2] bfd: Remove bfd_arch_l1om and bfd_arch_k1om

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Fri Mar 25 14:22:29 GMT 2022 
On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 1:21 AM Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>
> On 24.03.2022 20:23, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > Remove bfd_arch_l1om and bfd_arch_k1om since L1OM/K1OM support has been
> > removed from gas, ld and opcodes.
>
> As said in a post-commit-message comment of the patch removing support
> from ld/, I'd prefer to keep e.g. elfedit functioning for these targets.

elfedit doesn't need bfd_arch_l1om nor bfd_arch_k1om.

> Maybe not necessarily for the input, but at least for the output. Else
> there's no way for people to create such objects anymore, forcing them
> to resort to hex-editing of files, which I view as undesirable. I think
> this 2nd patch goes against that; I'm not sure in how far the 1st one
> would still allow this to function.

People can use the older binutils.

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H.J.
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