Re: [PATCH] Documentation/changes: Raise minimum supported binutils version to 2.23

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 05:02:59PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Long overdue patch, see below.
> 
> Plan is to queue it after 5.7-rc1.
> 
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> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 16:28:36 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/changes: Raise minimum supported binutilsa version to 2.23
> 
> The currently minimum-supported binutils version 2.21 has the problem of
> promoting symbols which are defined outside of a section into absolute.
> According to Arvind:
> 
>   binutils-2.21 and -2.22. An x86-64 defconfig will fail with
>           Invalid absolute R_X86_64_32S relocation: _etext
>   and after fixing that one, with
>           Invalid absolute R_X86_64_32S relocation: __end_of_kernel_reserve
> 
> Those two versions of binutils have a bug when it comes to handling
> symbols defined outside of a section and binutils 2.23 has the proper
> fix, see: https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/binutils/2012-06/msg00155.html
> 
> Therefore, up to the fixed version directly, skipping the broken ones.
> 
> Currently shipping distros already have the fixed binutils version so
> there should be no breakage resulting from this.
> 
> For more details about the whole thing, see the thread in Link.

That sounds very good to me. Then we'll be able to use ADX instructions
without ifdefs.

Acked-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>