This patch series make seabios linkable with lld.
This is beneficial for FreeBSD ports as well https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/misc/seabios/Makefile as they can drop an LLD_UNSAFE
As a maintainer of lld ELF, I have triaged numerous pieces of software. seabios is the only one making use of This drops the only instance https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12726
1, 2 and 3 are really independent and can be applied in arbitrary order. 4 depends on 3. I originally combined 3 and 4 and that was why I don't think a patch series made sense.
Fangrui Song (4): Make rom16.o linkable with lld Makefile: Change ET_EXEC to ET_REL so that lld can link bios.bin.elf romlayout32flag.lds: Use `. +=` instead of `. =` test-build.sh: Delete unneeded LD capability test
Makefile | 4 ++++ scripts/layoutrom.py | 11 ++++++++++- scripts/test-build.sh | 42 +----------------------------------------- src/romlayout.S | 2 +- 4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)