F20 System Wide Change: ARM as primary Architecture

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Thu Jul 11 15:10:14 UTC 2013


On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 07:48:50AM -0400, Jonathan Masters wrote:
> And following the legitimate concerns about stack-protector this was
> raised by ARM into core Linaro as an urgent action for which engineering
> resource is being assigned to correct this deficiency ASAP. Thus within
> a day an issue has been noted that we were unaware of and is being worked
> through a process to correct it, as would be the case with any deficiency
> on x86. The stack protection stuff will be fixed. Let's bike shed over the
> next nitpick nuance that the anti-ARM crowd want to throw in the way ;)
> 
Just in case it wasn't part of what was discussed, please note that if all
goes well, F20 will be switching to use -fstack-protector-strong rather than
just -fstack-protector so we'd need the functionality for that implemented:

https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1128

-Toshio

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