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Re: Add "x86/build: Build compressed x86 kernels as PIE" to the v4.4.y stable tree?

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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

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Add "x86/build: Build compressed x86 kernels as PIE" to the v4.4.y  stable tree? Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> - 2016-10-14 15:50 +0200
  Re: Add "x86/build: Build compressed x86 kernels as PIE" to the  v4.4.y stable tree? Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-10-14 16:20 +0200
    Re: Add "x86/build: Build compressed x86 kernels as PIE" to the  v4.4.y stable tree? Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> - 2016-10-14 18:30 +0200
      Re: Add "x86/build: Build compressed x86 kernels as PIE" to the  v4.4.y stable tree? "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> - 2016-10-14 18:40 +0200

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