It is assembled using "${CC} -x assembler-with-cpp", which by convention
(bsd.suffixes.mk) uses the .asm extension.
This is a portion of the review referenced below (D18344). That review
also renamed linux_support.s to .S, but that is a functional change
(using the compiler's integrated assembler instead of as) and will be
revisited separately.
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18344
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