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current binutils trunk fails to build bootable kernel image for some configurations
- From: Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu dot com>
- To: binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Cc: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>, Bastian Blank <waldi at debian dot org>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:04:57 -0400
- Subject: current binutils trunk fails to build bootable kernel image for some configurations
this was reported as http://bugs.debian.org/537389, I currently don't have much
more information, besides that one of the Debian kernel maintainers did identify
2009-07-11 Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
* ldlang.c (insert_os_after): Don't tie assignments to non-alloc
output sections.
this patch as the one causing the wrongly built kernel. However I don't see this
checkin mentioned on the ML. Bastian Blank did check that the problem goes away
with a binutils build from trunk and this patch reverted. Some more analysis in
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/21/400
Matthias