On 17.07.2025 05:11, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: > This was discovered by GitHub user @fallen and leads > to an "Unsupported relocation type" crash during boot > because shim and some patched versions of GRUB do not load > the section. See > https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/8206#issuecomment-3078795967 > for more details. > > I'm not sure if this is a bug in Xen or a bug in the linker.
As said on Matrix, my take is that - if at all - the linker could do something about it only with a to-be-added command line option. For all "normal" purposes .reloc being discardable is what is wanted. Since such a command line option would be extremely niche, I think this will need taking care of on the Xen side (which, however, is unlikely to end up very pretty). Jan
