2.5.8-pre1 binutils-related regression on x86

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2.5.8-pre1 includes the following patch:

diff -Nru a/arch/i386/boot/setup.S b/arch/i386/boot/setup.S
--- a/arch/i386/boot/setup.S Wed Apr 3 17:11:13 2002
+++ b/arch/i386/boot/setup.S Wed Apr 3 17:11:13 2002
@@ -544,7 +544,7 @@
         cmpw $0, %cs:realmode_swtch
         jz rmodeswtch_normal
 
- lcall *%cs:realmode_swtch
+ lcall %cs:realmode_swtch
 
         jmp rmodeswtch_end
 
The "*" was put there early in the 2.5 series, to allow non-
antique binutils to assemble the code cleanly without warnings.
This patch reintroduces those warnings. Uncool.

/Mikael
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