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Ping: [PATCH 0/8] x86/EFI: build adjustments



On 01.04.2021 11:43, Jan Beulich wrote:
> So far we've taken care of just the immediate breakage caused by
> binutils 2.36. But we can also take advantage, in particular to
> avoid "manually" creating base relocations for xen.efi. Since it
> was requested and is possible with up-to-date binutils, inclusion
> of debug info in xen.efi is another part here. The other changes
> here are cleanup related to both the work here as well as the one
> to make binutils fit for our purposes.
> 
> 1: EFI: drop stale section special casing when generating base relocs
> 2: EFI: sections may not live at VA 0 in PE binaries
> 3: EFI: program headers are an ELF concept
> 4: EFI: redo .reloc section bounds determination
> 5: drop use of prelink-efi.o
> 6: EFI: avoid use of GNU ld's --disable-reloc-section when possible
> 7: EFI: keep debug info in xen.efi
> 8: EFI: don't have an overly large image size

Only the first patch here has been acked (and has gone in). Any chance
of getting acks (or otherwise) for the rest?

Thanks, Jan



 


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