Hi Segher, On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 13:43:31 +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > > Thanks Jean. Your compressed/head.o looks fine. > > No it doesn't -- the .text.head section doesn't have > the ALLOC attribute set. The section then ends up not > being assigned to an output segment (during the linking > of vmlinux) and all hell breaks loose. The linker gives > you a warning about this btw.
I didn't notice any warning, but maybe I just missed it. > Jean, how old is your binutils? 2.14.90.0.6 > Since 2.15 at least this should be set automatically > on sections named .text.<whatever> . > > It wouldn't hurt to specify it by hand in the source > code of course -- change > > .section ".text.head" > > to > > .section ".text.head","ax",@progbits > > in compressed/head.S . I don't have access to this test system at the moment, I'll check, test and report back once I have access again. Thanks, -- Jean Delvare - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
