From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Add "x86/build: Build compressed x86 kernels as PIE" to the v4.4.y stable tree?
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 16:08:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161014140836.GA10917@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1476452422.11366.24.camel@tiscali.nl>
On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 03:40:22PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It took me quite some time to get v4.4.24 to successfully boot (this
> was a 32 bits build on Fedora 24). Especially annoying was that it
> failed silently on real hardware. Only after messing around with Qemu
> it became clear what might be going on.
>
> It turned out Fedora 24 ships binutils-2.26, and using that version of
> binutils apparently requires commit 6d92bc9d483a ("x86/build: Build
> compressed x86 kernels as PIE"). Does is makes sense to add that commit
> to the v4.4.y stable tree?
Did you apply that patch and it worked properly for you? If so, yes,
I'll be glad to queue it up.
Also, stable questions/issues should be cc:ed to stable@vger.kernel.org.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-14 14:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-14 13:40 Add "x86/build: Build compressed x86 kernels as PIE" to the v4.4.y stable tree? Paul Bolle
2016-10-14 14:08 ` Greg KH [this message]
2016-10-14 16:21 ` Paul Bolle
2016-10-14 16:38 ` H.J. Lu
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