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Smith" , Xen-devel References: <20260608173108.2848469-1-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> <965bcf53-accf-4297-bf8c-903dce45cba0@suse.com> Content-Language: en-US From: Jan Beulich Autocrypt: addr=jbeulich@suse.com; keydata= xsDiBFk3nEQRBADAEaSw6zC/EJkiwGPXbWtPxl2xCdSoeepS07jW8UgcHNurfHvUzogEq5xk hu507c3BarVjyWCJOylMNR98Yd8VqD9UfmX0Hb8/BrA+Hl6/DB/eqGptrf4BSRwcZQM32aZK 7Pj2XbGWIUrZrd70x1eAP9QE3P79Y2oLrsCgbZJfEwCgvz9JjGmQqQkRiTVzlZVCJYcyGGsD /0tbFCzD2h20ahe8rC1gbb3K3qk+LpBtvjBu1RY9drYk0NymiGbJWZgab6t1jM7sk2vuf0Py O9Hf9XBmK0uE9IgMaiCpc32XV9oASz6UJebwkX+zF2jG5I1BfnO9g7KlotcA/v5ClMjgo6Gl MDY4HxoSRu3i1cqqSDtVlt+AOVBJBACrZcnHAUSuCXBPy0jOlBhxPqRWv6ND4c9PH1xjQ3NP nxJuMBS8rnNg22uyfAgmBKNLpLgAGVRMZGaGoJObGf72s6TeIqKJo/LtggAS9qAUiuKVnygo 3wjfkS9A3DRO+SpU7JqWdsveeIQyeyEJ/8PTowmSQLakF+3fote9ybzd880fSmFuIEJldWxp Y2ggPGpiZXVsaWNoQHN1c2UuY29tPsJgBBMRAgAgBQJZN5xEAhsDBgsJCAcDAgQVAggDBBYC AwECHgECF4AACgkQoDSui/t3IH4J+wCfQ5jHdEjCRHj23O/5ttg9r9OIruwAn3103WUITZee e7Sbg12UgcQ5lv7SzsFNBFk3nEQQCACCuTjCjFOUdi5Nm244F+78kLghRcin/awv+IrTcIWF hUpSs1Y91iQQ7KItirz5uwCPlwejSJDQJLIS+QtJHaXDXeV6NI0Uef1hP20+y8qydDiVkv6l IreXjTb7DvksRgJNvCkWtYnlS3mYvQ9NzS9PhyALWbXnH6sIJd2O9lKS1Mrfq+y0IXCP10eS FFGg+Av3IQeFatkJAyju0PPthyTqxSI4lZYuJVPknzgaeuJv/2NccrPvmeDg6Coe7ZIeQ8Yj t0ARxu2xytAkkLCel1Lz1WLmwLstV30g80nkgZf/wr+/BXJW/oIvRlonUkxv+IbBM3dX2OV8 AmRv1ySWPTP7AAMFB/9PQK/VtlNUJvg8GXj9ootzrteGfVZVVT4XBJkfwBcpC/XcPzldjv+3 HYudvpdNK3lLujXeA5fLOH+Z/G9WBc5pFVSMocI71I8bT8lIAzreg0WvkWg5V2WZsUMlnDL9 mpwIGFhlbM3gfDMs7MPMu8YQRFVdUvtSpaAs8OFfGQ0ia3LGZcjA6Ik2+xcqscEJzNH+qh8V m5jjp28yZgaqTaRbg3M/+MTbMpicpZuqF4rnB0AQD12/3BNWDR6bmh+EkYSMcEIpQmBM51qM EKYTQGybRCjpnKHGOxG0rfFY1085mBDZCH5Kx0cl0HVJuQKC+dV2ZY5AqjcKwAxpE75MLFkr wkkEGBECAAkFAlk3nEQCGwwACgkQoDSui/t3IH7nnwCfcJWUDUFKdCsBH/E5d+0ZnMQi+G0A nAuWpQkjM1ASeQwSHEeAWPgskBQL In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-purgate-ID: tlsNG-d62444/1781619338-ADF40FF4-34358960/0/0 X-purgate-type: clean X-purgate-size: 1568 On 16.06.2026 16:07, Frediano Ziglio wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jun 2026 at 15:42, Jan Beulich wrote: >> >> On 11.06.2026 16:38, Jan Beulich wrote: >>> On 08.06.2026 19:31, Andrew Cooper wrote: >>>> Some old versions of binutils ld managed to produce efi files which the >>>> matching version of strip couldn't process. This includes Binutils 2.26 >>>> included in Ubuntu 16.04. Delete the workaround for this bug, and require a >>>> less broken toolchain. >>> >>> And we're certain newer versions of strip don't do any harm to the binaries? >>> Already towards Frediano's posting I said that having looked at how things >>> work there, I'm far from certain. >> >> I should have added: An option may be to link twice: Once with debug info >> included, and once with it stripped. Personally I trust the linker creating >> the various headers, including the section ones, more than strip's (or >> objcopy's). Yet then I can only repeat my observation that linking PE+ from >> ELF inputs looks to be significantly slower than linking ELF -> ELF. > > That was also attempted. See previous versions. And no, it does not work. How exactly does it not work? When stripping debug info while linking (as we now do for the first two passes), the resulting image should be both small enough and correct. What am I missing? The only caveat I'm aware of is the Eclair scan, where we should avoid doing any work for the "auxiliary" linking step (the one not producing the binary that's actually going to be used for running Xen). Jan