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From:   Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Date:   Wed, 20 May 2020 19:33:57 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] x86/boot: lld fix
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On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 06:56:53PM -0400, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> arch/x86/boot/setup.elf currently has an orphan section .text.startup,
> and lld git as of ebf14d9b6d8b is breaking on 64-bit due to what seems
> to be a change in behavior on orphan section placement (details in patch
> commit message).
> 
> I'm not sure if this was an intentional change in lld, but it seems like
> a good idea to explicitly include .text.startup anyway.
> 
> Arvind Sankar (1):
>   x86/boot: Add .text.startup to setup.ld
> 
>  arch/x86/boot/setup.ld | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.26.2
> 

Actually I'm not sure this is a recent change. I updated to the git tip
because on my system (gentoo with gcc-10), lld-10.0.0 segfaults when
trying to link the compressed kernel, and updating to lld git fixed
that. So I previously probably didn't get to the stage where it links
setup.elf.