On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 01:43:31PM +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. >
Thanks Segher. You are right. I did not notice that. Section Headers: [Nr] Name Type Addr Off Size ES Flg Lk Inf Al [ 0] NULL 00000000 000000 000000 00 0 0 0 [ 1] .text PROGBITS 00000000 000034 000044 00 AX 0 0 4 [ 2] .rel.text REL 00000000 0005c8 000040 08 8 1 4 [ 3] .data PROGBITS 00000000 000078 000000 00 WA 0 0 4 [ 4] .bss NOBITS 00000000 000078 001000 00 WA 0 0 4 [ 5] .text.head PROGBITS 00000000 000078 00006e 00 0 0 1 .text.head is not type AX so it will be left out from the linked output. This reminds me that I have put another patch in kernel/head.S creating a new section .text.head. I think I shall have to put a patch there too to make it work with older binutils. Thanks Vivek - 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/
