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

[Fāng-ruì Sòng]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 5:25 AM Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Fangrui,
>
> > The opinion in my other message
> > (https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2020-July/112283.html )
> > stands. allowexec will not be a suitable option name.
>
> Agreed - thinking on it some more, if we do implement this option
> then a name like "allowall" or "allowany" might be better.

I think we don't need an option then. The number of use cases is small enough.

> > For seabios and Linux 5.2 (this major release only), a linker warning
> > should not hurt.
> > In a future release of GNU ld, the warning can be upgraded to an error.
>
> This seems like a good compromise to me.  I will add a patch to the 2.35
> branch to change the error to a warning, along with a note that supporting
> this kind of linking is likely to be deprecated in the future.
>
> Cheers
>   Nick

Sounds like a good plan. Thanks!