It probably affects everyone trying to build a BE 64bit PPC kernel,
perhaps others as well.
I don't have a Power 8 running LE 64bit...
But If anyone would like to donate one and pay my power bill, by all
means ill give it a try :)
Its a bit of a chore downgrading to binutils 2.25-5 every time I build a
kernel.
Not sure how versions of binutils > 2.25-5 ever left the sid repo and
into testing.
Would be great if testing repo's downgraded to binutils 2.25-5 :)
But then again, only the hardcore devs running sid then would probably
notice the bugs.
Alas, It has been reported quite a while ago.... Just wait and see for
the fix I guess!
Cheers,
Peter
On 07/02/16 08:42, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 07:52:37AM +1100, Peter Saisanas wrote:
Hi Clive,
Glad you got your G5 up and running!
Regarding my config, currently am running 4.5.0-rc2 kernel, xfce
desktop and on Debian stretch (testing) repo's.
As a side note, on the testing repo's, the only package that I
personally have noticed that has broken and affected me recently is
binutils, i.e. binutils versions currently >2.25-5 are not capable
of building kernels correctly (the kernel modules within the initrd
seem to not be built correctly).
I'm also affected by this. I think that the problem will be fixed by:
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1602.0/05322.html
Hopefully there will be soon an upload of fixed binutils to testing.
Otherwise I'll have to compile and install binutils myself.
Gabriel
