syslinux/trunk/0016-strip-gnu-property.patch

   1 From: Lukas Schwaighofer <lukas@schwaighofer.name>
   2 Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2018 12:48:21 +0200
   3 Subject: Strip the .note.gnu.property section for the mbr
   4
   5 This section is added since binutils Debian version 2.31.1-2 and causes mbr.bin
   6 to grow in size beyond what can fit into the master boot record.
   7
   8 Forwarded: https://www.syslinux.org/archives/2018-August/026168.html
   9 ---
  10  mbr/i386/mbr.ld   | 6 +++++-
  11  mbr/x86_64/mbr.ld | 6 +++++-
  12  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
  13
  14 diff --git a/mbr/i386/mbr.ld b/mbr/i386/mbr.ld
  15 index d14ba80..6d48990 100644
  16 --- a/mbr/i386/mbr.ld
  17 +++ b/mbr/i386/mbr.ld
  18 @@ -69,5 +69,9 @@ SECTIONS
  19    .debug_funcnames 0 : { *(.debug_funcnames) }
  20    .debug_typenames 0 : { *(.debug_typenames) }
  21    .debug_varnames  0 : { *(.debug_varnames) }
  22 -  /DISCARD/ : { *(.note.GNU-stack) }
  23 +  /DISCARD/      :
  24 +  {
  25 +    *(.note.GNU-stack)
  26 +    *(.note.gnu.property)
  27 +  }
  28  }
  29 diff --git a/mbr/x86_64/mbr.ld b/mbr/x86_64/mbr.ld
  30 index ae27d49..5b46db6 100644
  31 --- a/mbr/x86_64/mbr.ld
  32 +++ b/mbr/x86_64/mbr.ld
  33 @@ -68,5 +68,9 @@ SECTIONS
  34    .debug_funcnames 0 : { *(.debug_funcnames) }
  35    .debug_typenames 0 : { *(.debug_typenames) }
  36    .debug_varnames  0 : { *(.debug_varnames) }
  37 -  /DISCARD/ : { *(.note.GNU-stack) }
  38 +  /DISCARD/      :
  39 +  {
  40 +    *(.note.GNU-stack)
  41 +    *(.note.gnu.property)
  42 +  }
  43  }