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=-7.3 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, 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 147ACC43462 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2021 09:53:48 +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 BD3D46108E for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2021 09:53:47 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org BD3D46108E Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=suse.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=xen-devel-bounces@lists.xenproject.org Received: from list by lists.xenproject.org with outflank-mailman.110992.212119 (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lWygt-0002su-Vf; Thu, 15 Apr 2021 09:53:39 +0000 X-Outflank-Mailman: Message body and most headers restored to incoming version Received: by outflank-mailman (output) from mailman id 110992.212119; Thu, 15 Apr 2021 09:53:39 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.xenproject.org) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lWygt-0002sn-SU; Thu, 15 Apr 2021 09:53:39 +0000 Received: by outflank-mailman (input) for mailman id 110992; Thu, 15 Apr 2021 09:53:38 +0000 Received: from us1-rack-iad1.inumbo.com ([172.99.69.81]) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lWygs-0002sf-MS for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2021 09:53:38 +0000 Received: from mx2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.220.15]) by us1-rack-iad1.inumbo.com (Halon) with ESMTPS id f7f8d2ac-d923-4433-8d05-fee7326a7c97; Thu, 15 Apr 2021 09:53:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.221.27]) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F1ECAC6E; Thu, 15 Apr 2021 09:53:37 +0000 (UTC) X-BeenThere: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org List-Id: Xen developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xenproject.org Precedence: list Sender: "Xen-devel" X-Inumbo-ID: f7f8d2ac-d923-4433-8d05-fee7326a7c97 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=suse.com; s=susede1; t=1618480417; h=from:from:reply-to:date:date:message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc: mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=2wBm2EHrTG/WlZZxGtTQH9QKJ5lIyf6rcYXncKSBmvg=; b=qOsx8DHtIWnpPROMPfATuG5IkdWTBQgtDzP0PiZsnDgVO2eJRvBYqllImb1f8K+DAWkcGj gqDzFklYuUGr02bUNoqlbA2qHfZ3WOI/+CgIhMDhoVUX2AVBUOOQeQUWE42IotdYyIro2O FDnBpK3cgQ9+o+ENr1o3jV72s1+NPsU= Subject: Ping: [PATCH 0/8] x86/EFI: build adjustments From: Jan Beulich To: Andrew Cooper , Wei Liu , =?UTF-8?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=c3=a9?= Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" References: Message-ID: <3e844d0d-a061-52f9-c33a-f28c4952524d@suse.com> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 11:53:37 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 01.04.2021 11:43, Jan Beulich wrote: > So far we've taken care of just the immediate breakage caused by > binutils 2.36. But we can also take advantage, in particular to > avoid "manually" creating base relocations for xen.efi. Since it > was requested and is possible with up-to-date binutils, inclusion > of debug info in xen.efi is another part here. The other changes > here are cleanup related to both the work here as well as the one > to make binutils fit for our purposes. > > 1: EFI: drop stale section special casing when generating base relocs > 2: EFI: sections may not live at VA 0 in PE binaries > 3: EFI: program headers are an ELF concept > 4: EFI: redo .reloc section bounds determination > 5: drop use of prelink-efi.o > 6: EFI: avoid use of GNU ld's --disable-reloc-section when possible > 7: EFI: keep debug info in xen.efi > 8: EFI: don't have an overly large image size Only the first patch here has been acked (and has gone in). Any chance of getting acks (or otherwise) for the rest? Thanks, Jan