Hi Joseph, Szabolcs 

> On Mon, 25 Oct 2021, Szabolcs Nagy via Libc-alpha wrote:
> 
> > ok, i think we need the patches upstream for that like
> > https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2015-November/066153.html
> >  
> 
> The AArch64 prelink support isn't in the upstream Yocto
> cross-prelink, and the version written by Samsung in 2015 and on the
> cross_prelink_aarch64 branch has various problems resulting in test
> failures, in my experience.

Ok.

> 
> I sent patches (on top of a merge of the upstream cross_prelink and 
> cross_prelink_aarch64 branches) to the maintainer in May 2020 (the
> Yocto project mailing list doesn't accept email from non-subscribers,
> so won't have seen those patches), which made it work well enough to
> get clean prelink test results, but so far they haven't been
> committed to the upstream cross_prelink branch (or any other upstream
> branch).  I've now made those available at
> https://github.com/jsm28/prelink (cross_prelink_aarch64_fixes branch).
> 

So this branch shall be pulled by yocto's cross-prelink maintainer.
Without it the cross-prelink doesn't support aarch64?

> Note however that, like the original patches from Samsung, this
> version does indeed depend on a hack in _dl_tlsdesc_undefweak to work
> with TLS descriptors.
> 

To properly solve this issue we shall:

1. For arm
- Fix the cross-prelink (no patches available)

or

- Fix glibc (as proposed by Szabolcs)

2. For aarch64

- Try to upstream patches from Joseph to OE/Yocto's cross-prelink

or

- Fix glibc (if required)

or

- Do nothing (aarch64 will not be prelinked in OE/Yocto, which means
  that it will work correctly)


Best regards,

Lukasz Majewski

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