From: Lukas Schwaighofer <lukas@schwaighofer.name>
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2018 12:48:21 +0200
Subject: 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
---
 mbr/i386/mbr.ld   | 6 +++++-
 mbr/x86_64/mbr.ld | 6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mbr/i386/mbr.ld b/mbr/i386/mbr.ld
index d14ba80..6d48990 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/x86_64/mbr.ld b/mbr/x86_64/mbr.ld
index ae27d49..5b46db6 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)
+  }
 }