From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Lu, Hongjiu" <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>,
"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG]x86: relocatable doesn't work with new binutils
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:24:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D0AD7FF.5020103@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1292556114.2323.484.camel@sli10-conroe>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-17 3:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-17 2:42 [BUG]x86: relocatable doesn't work with new binutils Shaohua Li
2010-12-17 2:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-12-17 3:21 ` Shaohua Li
2010-12-17 3:24 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-12-17 4:54 ` Lu, Hongjiu
2010-12-17 10:05 ` Américo Wang
2010-12-17 14:06 ` Shaohua Li
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