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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
thanks,
greg k-h
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