On Tuesday, March 15, 2011 04:21:37 Tristan Gingold wrote:
> [ I think that not all patches have been back-ported, so do not hesitate to
> ping me ]

my understanding is that binutils-2.21 does not build a relocatable x86 
kernel, but this commit from master fixes it:
http://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils.git;a=commit;h=5daebc6a6606a30e60716f5bdee3d2018b560e8e

so that'd be a good one to backport if a new release is done
-mike