[SeaBIOS] Re: recent ld built for x86_64 fails to accept 16bit code as input (seabios build)

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 06:49:37PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 09.07.2020 18:41, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> ..
> > Some background links:
> > 
> > https://www.mail-archive.com/seabios@seabios.org/msg12275.html
> > 
> > https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26047
> 
> Doh. This is a known issue, even the commit in question has been
> known to break seabios even before it were committed..
> 
> > Nick - the original poster of PR 26047 was aware the binutils change
> > would break software.  Were you aware of that when you committed the
> > change?
> 
> What's wrong with changing seabios as done by Fāng-ruì Sòng?

My initial feedback was at:

https://www.mail-archive.com/seabios@seabios.org/msg12157.html

and later at (now as a "patch 3"):

https://www.mail-archive.com/seabios@seabios.org/msg12189.html

The proposed approach is to use a combination of printf and dd to
binary modify the intermediate object file so as to clear the (now
banned) linker flag.  I did feel, and continue to feel, this is an
ugly hack that is fragile.

-Kevin