x86/boot: Drop PE/COFF .reloc section

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Ancient buggy EFI loaders may have required a .reloc section to be
present at some point in time, but this has not been true for a long
time so the .reloc section can just be dropped.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230915171623.655440-16-ardb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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Ard Biesheuvel 2024-04-19 10:11:20 +02:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c

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