On 24 November 2015 at 10:34, Robert Richter
[off-list ref] wrote:

Ard,

On 08.10.15 20:02:04, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:

quoted

+quiet_cmd_stubcopy = STUBCPY $@
+      cmd_stubcopy = if $(OBJCOPY) $(STUBCOPY_FLAGS-y) $< $@; then   \
+                  $(OBJDUMP) -r $@ | grep $(STUBCOPY_RELOC-y)        \
+                  && (echo >&2 "$@: absolute symbol references not allowed in the EFI stub"; \
+                      rm -f $@; /bin/false); else /bin/false; fi

This one is causing some more build errors for my setup. Any hint how
to fix that?

Did you remove -R .debug* from the STUBCOPY_FLAGS-$(CONFIG_ARM64) line?

The problem here is that
a) .debug contains absolute relocations, which is harmless by itself
since they are not used by the program itself, but
b) the .debug sections also contain references to the ksymtab and
kcrctab sections, which should be removed, and removing those and
keeping .debug* sadly doesn't work.

-- 
Ard.

  STUBCPY drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.stub.o
0000000000000006 R_AARCH64_ABS32   .debug_abbrev
000000000000000c R_AARCH64_ABS32   .debug_str+0x0000000000000890
0000000000000011 R_AARCH64_ABS32   .debug_str+0x0000000000004ecd
0000000000000015 R_AARCH64_ABS32   .debug_str+0x0000000000000bb1
0000000000000019 R_AARCH64_ABS64   .init.text
0000000000000021 R_AARCH64_ABS64   .init.text+0x00000000000008cc
0000000000000029 R_AARCH64_ABS32   .debug_line
0000000000000030 R_AARCH64_ABS32   .debug_str+0x00000000000000eb
0000000000000047 R_AARCH64_ABS32   .debug_str+0x0000000000003ca8
0000000000000059 R_AARCH64_ABS32   .debug_str+0x0000000000004798
0000000000000060 R_AARCH64_ABS32   .debug_str+0x0000000000005008
...
000000000000a4bb R_AARCH64_ABS32   .debug_str+0x0000000000004a75
000000000000a4da R_AARCH64_ABS32   .debug_str+0x00000000000029ee
000000000000a4f7 R_AARCH64_ABS32   .debug_str+0x0000000000001d95
000000000000a519 R_AARCH64_ABS32   .debug_str+0x0000000000000773
0000000000000006 R_AARCH64_ABS32   .debug_info
0000000000000010 R_AARCH64_ABS64   .init.text
0000000000000623 R_AARCH64_ABS64   .init.text
0000000000000014 R_AARCH64_ABS32   .debug_frame
0000000000000018 R_AARCH64_ABS64   .init.text
000000000000002c R_AARCH64_ABS32   .debug_frame
0000000000000030 R_AARCH64_ABS64   .init.text+0x0000000000000018
0000000000000074 R_AARCH64_ABS32   .debug_frame
0000000000000078 R_AARCH64_ABS64   .init.text+0x0000000000000140
000000000000009c R_AARCH64_ABS32   .debug_frame
00000000000000a0 R_AARCH64_ABS64   .init.text+0x0000000000000158
00000000000000c4 R_AARCH64_ABS32   .debug_frame
00000000000000c8 R_AARCH64_ABS64   .init.text+0x0000000000000170
000000000000012c R_AARCH64_ABS32   .debug_frame
0000000000000130 R_AARCH64_ABS64   .init.text+0x0000000000000390
0000000000000154 R_AARCH64_ABS32   .debug_frame
0000000000000158 R_AARCH64_ABS64   .init.text+0x00000000000003b0
00000000000001a4 R_AARCH64_ABS32   .debug_frame
00000000000001a8 R_AARCH64_ABS64   .init.text+0x0000000000000780
drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.stub.o: absolute symbol references not allowed in the EFI stub