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From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@suse.com>
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>>> "George Spelvin" <linux@horizon.com> 05/28/14 4:40 PM >>>
>Jan: Is support for SLE10's pre-2.18 binutils still required?
>Your PEXTRD fix was only a year ago, so I expect, but I wanted to ask.

I'd much appreciate if I would be able to build the kernel that way for another while.

>Two other minor additional changes:
>
>1. The current code unnecessarily puts the table in the read-write
   >.data section.  Moved to .text.

Putting data into .text seems wrong - it should go into .rodata.

Jan