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The kernel's EFI PE/COFF header contains a dummy .reloc section, and an explanatory comment that claims that this is required for the EFI application loader to accept the Image as a relocatable image (i.e., one that can be loaded at any offset and fixed up in place) This was inherited from the x86 implementation, which has elaborate host tooling to mangle the PE/COFF header post-link time, and which populates the .reloc section with a single dummy base relocation. On ARM, no such tooling exists, and the .reloc section remains empty, and is never even exposed via the BaseRelocationTable directory entry, which is where the PE/COFF loader looks for it. The PE/COFF spec is unclear about relocatable images that do not require any fixups, but the EDK2 implementation, which is the de facto reference for PE/COFF in the UEFI space, clearly does not care, and explicitly mentions (in a comment) that relocatable images with no base relocations are perfectly fine, as long as they don't have the RELOCS_STRIPPED attribute set (which is not the case for our PE/COFF image) So simply remove the .reloc section altogether. Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Acked-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.