Author: Lukas Schwaighofer <lukas@schwaighofer.name>

Description: Strip the .note.gnu.property section for the mbr. This section is

 added since binutils Debian version 2.31.1-2 and causes mbr.bin to grow in

 size beyond what can fit into the master boot record.

Forwarded: https://www.syslinux.org/archives/2018-August/026168.html

diff --git a/mbr/i386/mbr.ld b/mbr/i386/mbr.ld

index d14ba802..4d40cb11 100644

--- a/mbr/i386/mbr.ld

+++ b/mbr/i386/mbr.ld

@@ -69,5 +69,9 @@ SECTIONS

   .debug_funcnames 0 : { *(.debug_funcnames) }

   .debug_typenames 0 : { *(.debug_typenames) }

   .debug_varnames  0 : { *(.debug_varnames) }

-  /DISCARD/ : { *(.note.GNU-stack) }

+  /DISCARD/ :

+  {

+    *(.note.GNU-stack)

+    *(.note.gnu.property)

+  }

 }

diff --git a/mbr/mbr.ld b/mbr/mbr.ld

index d14ba802..6d489904 100644

--- a/mbr/mbr.ld

+++ b/mbr/mbr.ld

@@ -69,5 +69,9 @@ SECTIONS

   .debug_funcnames 0 : { *(.debug_funcnames) }

   .debug_typenames 0 : { *(.debug_typenames) }

   .debug_varnames  0 : { *(.debug_varnames) }

-  /DISCARD/ : { *(.note.GNU-stack) }

+  /DISCARD/	  :

+  {

+    *(.note.GNU-stack)

+    *(.note.gnu.property)

+  }

 }

diff --git a/mbr/x86_64/mbr.ld b/mbr/x86_64/mbr.ld

index ae27d49a..5b861a35 100644

--- a/mbr/x86_64/mbr.ld

+++ b/mbr/x86_64/mbr.ld

@@ -68,5 +68,9 @@ SECTIONS

   .debug_funcnames 0 : { *(.debug_funcnames) }

   .debug_typenames 0 : { *(.debug_typenames) }

   .debug_varnames  0 : { *(.debug_varnames) }

-  /DISCARD/ : { *(.note.GNU-stack) }

+  /DISCARD/ :

+  {

+    *(.note.GNU-stack)

+    *(.note.gnu.property)

+  }

 }