PEI 16bit relocation problem fix - when ?

[kyra]

>> Having been clashed with 'reloc overflow' cygwin gas (pei-coff)
>> error, I've found this problem to stand for more than two years. So
>> I'm interested if anyone of cygwin gurus is going to fix this ever ?
>
>It is very low on the priority list.  If more important things keep
>happening and nobody else volunteers to help, it may never get fixed.
>Not good news, but it's the truth.

:-(((. How much time it could take for total binutils newbie (but with reasonable programming skills) to fix this ? Are http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2000-01/msg00106.html suggestions a good starting point ?