Re: [Xen-devel] [xen-unstable test] 96330: regressions - trouble: blocked/broken/fail/pass

[Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/29/2016 06:58 AM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Jan Beulich writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [xen-unstable test] 96330: regressions - 
> trouble: blocked/broken/fail/pass"):
> > On 28.06.16 at 21:16, <osstest-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This latter one is
> >
> > objcopy -S -I binary -O elf64-little --rename-section=.data=.init.xsm_policy 
> > policy.bin policy.o
> ...
> > :policy.o: Invalid bfd target
> > Makefile:45: recipe for target 'policy.o' failed
> > make[5]: Leaving directory 
> > '/home/osstest/build.96330.build-armhf-xsm/xen/xen/xsm/flask'
> > make[5]: *** [policy.o] Error 1
> >
> > which looks to be the not really suitable use of elf64-little in
> > commit 08cffe6696 ("xsm: add a default policy to .init.data").
> > Since it's not immediately clear how to fix this preferably
> > without ugly ifdef-ery in the makefile, I think we better revert
> > this for now. Opinions?
> Yes, I think reverting it for now is the right answer.
That's fine; I am planning on sending a v3 of this patch that drops
the use of objcopy for a python script converting the policy to an
array in a .c file.  This also eliminates the linker script changes.

--
Daniel De Graaf
National Security Agency

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