Hi Luis,

On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 00:02:43 +0200 "Luis R. Rodriguez" [off-list ref] wrote:

Thanks for the confirmation. For how long is it known this is broken?
Does anyone care and fix these ? Or is this best effort?

This has been broken for many years :-(

I have a couple of times almost fixed it, but it requires that we
change from using "ld -r" to build the built-in.o objects and some
changes to the powerpc head.S code ... I will give it another shot now
that the merge window is almost over (and linux-next goes into its
quieter time).

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell