Re: [PATCH] x86/boot: Remove x86_32 PIC using ebx workaround

[Borislav Petkov]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 10:41:11PM -0500, Brian Gerst wrote:
> x86-64 uses a PIC register for the medium and large PIC code models,
> where offsets can be larger than +/- 2GB.

Right but 64-bit is built with -mcmodel=kernel which obviously generates
rip-relative.

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