Re: [BUG]x86: relocatable doesn't work with new binutils

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Dec 16 2010 - 22:01:16 EST


On 12/16/2010 06:42 PM, Shaohua Li wrote:
> We can easily workaround this issue by moving jiffies to a section or at
> least warn people if such binutils are using. what should we do?

I think we should do the workaround, but still get distros to update the
broken binutils.

-hpa


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