[Buildroot] [PATCH] kvm-unit-test: revert use of RDSEED and RDRAND

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Dec 18 07:49:54 UTC 2017


Hello,

On Fri, 15 Dec 2017 14:41:05 -0600, Matthew Weber wrote:

> It isn't really a bug upstream.  I think the long term fix would be a
> check for a minimum binutils version.

Or kvm-unit-tests could do a configure test to verify if
rdseed/rdrand are supported, and only use them if so.

> Can you think of another case I could use as an example where a
> evolution in the binutils has required a minimum version?

I don't think we had such a case so far. We do have
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_BINUTILS_HAS_BUG_xyz, but I don't think we have had
version dependencies for binutils.

Thomas
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