Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:24:47 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [BUG]x86: relocatable doesn't work with new binutils |
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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
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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