Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] x86/xen.lds.S: Work around binutils build id alignment bug

[Trammell Hudson <hudson@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, September 8, 2020 8:29 AM, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> 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?

--
Trammell