mips binutils after 2001-08-03 build incorrect kernel

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 10:29:12AM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 03:45:17PM +0100, Richard Sandiford wrote:
> > 
> > "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
> > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 12:24:40AM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote:
> > > > it seems mips binutils after 08-03 build an incorrect kernel(symptom:
> > > > Indy freezes just after tftping the kernel). It seems the following is
> > > > causing most of the problems:
> > > > 
> > > > 2001-08-03  Richard Sandiford  <rsandifo@redhat.com>
> > > > 
> > > >         * config/tc-mips.c (md_apply_fix): Don't subtract the symbol
> > > >         value from GPREL addends.
> > > > 
> > > > So when I revert this one like:
> > > >
> > > > [snip]
> > > > 
> > > > Things get much better(boots straight to userspace).
> > 
> > It'd be really helpful if you could give an example of the kind of
> > difference this change makes.  Could you do a binary diff on the
> > kernel's object files before and after reverting the patch and find out
> > which ones changed?
> Silly me. I didn't know that binutils cvs is missing patches from H.J.
> and that these same patches have to be applied manually when fetching
> the tarball from kernel.org. A quick test with these patches applied
> looks much better. 

H.J., what changes are these?  Have they been submitted here?

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