--- /dev/null
+From 3a399127ead1ba3c8b8d0b9e7206fce39311ee72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
+Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 02:49:56 -0700
+Subject: [PATCH] xtensa: ld: restore old section sorting behavior
+
+With the recent change 535b785fb0c9 ("Don't compare boolean values
+against TRUE or FALSE") the following assertion is observed when
+linking with --sort-section,alignment option:
+
+ BFD (GNU Binutils) 2.29 assertion fail elf32-xtensa.c:3965
+
+It appears that xtensa linker only supported sorting sections by name,
+and the code that checks for the section sorting type in
+ld/emultempl/xtensaelf.em was not updated in the change bcaa7b3eb957
+("ld/"), that replaced boolean wildcard_spec::sorted with enumeration.
+
+Restore the original behavior of the section sorting code.
+
+ld/
+2017-08-02 Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
+
+ * emultempl/xtensaelf.em
+ (xtensa_wild_group_interleave_callback): Only check for by_name
+ sorting.
+
+Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
+---
+Backported from: 73d5923e480944e2d66bde8c59f4dff298ec57e3
+
+ ld/emultempl/xtensaelf.em | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/ld/emultempl/xtensaelf.em b/ld/emultempl/xtensaelf.em
+index 1447d526a25b..3827d91b6291 100644
+--- a/ld/emultempl/xtensaelf.em
++++ b/ld/emultempl/xtensaelf.em
+@@ -1432,7 +1432,7 @@ xtensa_wild_group_interleave_callback (lang_statement_union_type *statement)
+ struct wildcard_list *l;
+ for (l = w->section_list; l != NULL; l = l->next)
+ {
+- if (l->spec.sorted != none)
++ if (l->spec.sorted == by_name)
+ {
+ no_reorder = TRUE;
+ break;
+--
+2.1.4
+