linux-kernel - Re: Add "x86/build: Build compressed x86 kernels as PIE" to the v4.4.y stable tree?

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Date:   Fri, 14 Oct 2016 09:38:07 -0700
From:   "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com>
To:     Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Add "x86/build: Build compressed x86 kernels as PIE" to the
 v4.4.y stable tree?

On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl> wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-10-14 at 16:08 +0200, Greg KH wrote:
>> Did you apply that patch and it worked properly for you?  If so, yes,
>> I'll be glad to queue it up.
>
> Yes I did and it did.
>
> But I do find this commit as magical as they can get so I'd hoped that
> hjl would speak up. But if my word is enough for you, then feel free to
> queue it up.
>

Yes, commit 6d92bc9d483a is needed to support x86 relocatable
compressed kernel with binutils 2.26.

-- 
H.J.