Is objtool for x86_64 only?

Posted Aug 1, 2017 12:24 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: Is objtool for x86_64 only? by alison
Parent article: The ORCs are coming

Lots of kernel features show up on x86 first; it doesn't usually take all that long for the interesting ones to spread to the other architectures. I don't know of anybody working on ARMing the ORCs at the moment, but it would not surprise me if it happened fairly soon once the x86 stuff lands.

Is objtool for x86_64 only?

Posted Aug 1, 2017 13:38 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

ARMing ORCs seems distinctly dangerous to me: they are not renowned for friendliness as neighbours. However, in this case the ARMs have already taken over the world so I'm not sure there's much the ORCs could do. :P

Is objtool for x86_64 only?

Posted Aug 3, 2017 9:50 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

Ring the hobbits, maybe?

Cheers,
Wol

Is objtool for x86_64 only?

Posted Sep 14, 2017 3:54 UTC (Thu) by ajdlinux (subscriber, #82125) [Link]

ARM people feel neglected? I work exclusively on powerpc! :P

From what I can tell of the initially-x86-only features that do get ported to other architectures, arm/arm64 gets them first, powerpc can be (an often distant) second, and everything else may well be never...