Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 14 Oct 2016 16:08:36 +0200 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | 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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