From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64A45C433E2 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2020 09:16:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.xenproject.org (lists.xenproject.org [192.237.175.120]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E6F4F206B2 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2020 09:16:21 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org E6F4F206B2 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=suse.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=xen-devel-bounces@lists.xenproject.org Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.xenproject.org) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kHkaq-00066m-66; Mon, 14 Sep 2020 09:16:12 +0000 Received: from us1-rack-iad1.inumbo.com ([172.99.69.81]) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kHkao-00066h-Sz for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2020 09:16:10 +0000 X-Inumbo-ID: 27b8e53e-8c3b-44d6-bfac-33985e4a48d8 Received: from mx2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.220.15]) by us1-rack-iad1.inumbo.com (Halon) with ESMTPS id 27b8e53e-8c3b-44d6-bfac-33985e4a48d8; Mon, 14 Sep 2020 09:16:00 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Received: from relay2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.221.27]) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13945B221; Mon, 14 Sep 2020 09:16:15 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] x86/xen.lds.S: Work around binutils build id alignment bug To: Trammell Hudson Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" , Andrew Cooper , Wei Liu , =?UTF-8?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=c3=a9?= References: <20200907190027.669086-1-hudson@trmm.net> <20200907190027.669086-2-hudson@trmm.net> <5b8f533d-c646-8a52-cf37-d21b182ccf9b@suse.com> <6SnmUgvnHWozDhOcXRgAUuB_aEQdoXlOD5-uC6-t2LGRtadueg0vaUUmBISei_7NrT_9DCVBfNLUR12D6XTYoJNri7W2fw1_yeMUXULfwR0=@trmm.net> From: Jan Beulich Message-ID: <67566841-2ad9-bb94-1ab0-736be847b001@suse.com> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 11:15:58 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.12.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Xen developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xenproject.org Sender: "Xen-devel" On 14.09.2020 11:14, Trammell Hudson wrote: > On Tuesday, September 8, 2020 8:29 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: >> [...] As with, I think, the majority of new >> features, distros would pick up your new functionality mainly for >> use in new versions, and hence would likely run with new binutils >> anyway by that time. > > It also occurs to me that the binutils used to process the xen.efi > image does not need to be the same as the one used to generate it, > so there are no build-time dependencies on having this fix in place. > > Dropping this patch from the series doesn't affect the ability of a > distribution with a new binutils from being able to build unified > images, so I'm fine with abandoning it. > > Are there any further thoughts on the other parts of the series? It's on my list of things to look at, yes. I'm sorry it's taking some time to get there. Jan