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

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 12/16/2010 07:21 PM, Shaohua Li wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 10:59 +0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> 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.
> Here is my workaround.
> The problem is a lot of kernel versions are affected by this, fix all?

I suspect the stable kernels should be able to take the patch easily enough.

	-hpa


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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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