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From:   Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Subject: Re: old OCTEON bootloaders and .MIPS.abiflags
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On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 10:15:01PM +0000, Matthew Fortune wrote:

> >From the first implementation of .MIPS.abiflags the linker does not invent this section
> other than by merging input sections called .MIPS.abiflags so if the input sections
> are DISCARD'd then you will never see a .MIPS.abiflags output section nor the associated
> program header.
> 
> I'm 99% sure of the above.

Great.

Aaro is going to resubmit this patch with some additional changes suggested
by David Daney on IRC so I'm going to drop this patch.

  Ralf