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Date:   Fri, 15 Sep 2023 13:30:58 +0200
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/15] x86/boot: Rework PE header generation
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* Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:

> > Ard Biesheuvel (15):
> >   x86/efi: Drop EFI stub .bss from .data section
> >   x86/efi: Disregard setup header of loaded image
> >   x86/efi: Drop alignment flags from PE section headers
> >   x86/boot: Remove the 'bugger off' message
> >   x86/boot: Omit compression buffer from PE/COFF image memory footprint
> >   x86/boot: Drop redundant code setting the root device
> >   x86/boot: Grab kernel_info offset from zoffset header directly
> >   x86/boot: Drop references to startup_64
> 
> I've applied these first 8 patches to tip:x86/boot with minor edits.
> (Please preserve existing comment capitalization conventions ...)
> 
> >   x86/boot: Set EFI handover offset directly in header asm
> >   x86/boot: Define setup size in linker script
> >   x86/boot: Derive file size from _edata symbol
> >   x86/boot: Construct PE/COFF .text section from assembler
> >   x86/boot: Drop PE/COFF .reloc section
> >   x86/boot: Split off PE/COFF .data section
> >   x86/boot: Increase section and file alignment to 4k/512
> 
> The rest conflicted with recent upstream changes, and I suppose it's
> prudent to test these changes bit by bit anyway.

So, the first 8 patches broke the x86-64-defconfig-ish Qemu bzImage bootup,
due to the 8th patch:

  988b52b207a9fe74c3699bda8c2256714926b94b is the first bad commit
  commit 988b52b207a9fe74c3699bda8c2256714926b94b
  Author: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
  Date:   Tue Sep 12 09:01:01 2023 +0000

      x86/boot: Define setup size in linker script

I've removed it for now - but this side effect was not expected.

Thanks,

	Ingo