[PATCH v2 00/10] crypto: Kconfig - simplify menus and help text

[Elliott, Robert (Servers)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>
> Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2022 2:33 AM
> To: Elliott, Robert (Servers) <elliott at hpe.com>; Nayna
> <nayna at linux.vnet.ibm.com>; Andrew Donnellan <ajd at linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] crypto: Kconfig - simplify menus and help
> text
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Le 27/08/2022 à 22:06, Elliott, Robert (Servers) a écrit :
> > (adding Christophe, per
> > bba496656a73fc1 ("powerpc/32: Fix boot failure with GCC latent entropy
> plugin")
> >
> >
> > Adding libmpc-devel gets all the architectures building except powerpc.
> >
> > (I also installed gcc-plugins-devel to get the native x86
> > build to detect plugins.)
> >
> > However, powerpc still fails to build. Several of the Linux standard
> > include files end up including nodemask.h, which includes random.h,
> > which has a problem finding a global called latent_entropy while
> > building init/main.o:
> 
> Isn't it fixed in mainline by commit 012e8d2034f1 ("gcc-plugins:
> Undefine LATENT_ENTROPY_PLUGIN when plugin disabled for a file") ?

Yes, adding that patch fixes this particular problem. Thanks!

Next up is:
Cannot find symbol for section 94: .text.free_initmem.
init/main.o: failed
make[2]: *** [../scripts/Makefile.build:249: init/main.o] Error 1