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author | Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> | 2008-07-22 01:03:45 +0200 |
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committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2008-07-22 02:39:37 +0200 |
commit | c69cccc95fe4b90dde5fe33e6a3b77880b534fa4 (patch) | |
tree | a66214423a1eb987ee0e54e8c8a67f9d955d6055 /Documentation/BUG-HUNTING | |
parent | powerpc/eeh: Don't panic when EEH_MAX_FAILS is exceeded (diff) | |
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powerpc: Fix build bug with binutils < 2.18 and GCC < 4.2
binutils < 2.18 has a bug that makes it misbehave when taking an
ELF file with all segments at load address 0 as input. This
happens when running "strip" on vmlinux, because of the AT() magic
in this linker script. People using GCC >= 4.2 won't run into
this problem, because the "build-id" support will put some data
into the "notes" segment (at a non-zero load address).
To work around this, we force some data into both the "dummy"
segment and the kernel segment, so the dummy segment will get a
non-zero load address. It's not enough to always create the
"notes" segment, since if nothing gets assigned to it, its load
address will be zero.
Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Tested-By: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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