[OE-core] binutils: regression on kernel builds

[Enrico Scholz]

Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> writes:

>> | arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: error: arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy.gzip.o: unknown CPU architecture
>> ...
>> This works fine with binutils 2.22 and when using the BFD linker.
>
> You need to patch your kernel sources, some examples for different
> kernel versions (please ignore incorrect commit message)

I am not sure who (gold linker or kernel) is the responsible party.  But
based on my experiences with low level programs (e.g. bootloaders and
kernel) which are having serious problems with the gold linker, I set
for now

| KERNEL_LDSUFFIX = .bfd



Enrico