Resetting LMA for new VMAs

Nathan Sidwell nathan@codesourcery.com
Sat Apr 5 18:12:00 GMT 2008


Nathan Sidwell wrote:
> H.J. Lu wrote:
> 
>> Did you test both i686-linux and x86-64-linux 2.6 kernel build? Last
>> time when we changed it, it broke Linux kernel build.
> 
> No, that's exactly why I'm asking -- I can't be expected to know about 
> all the bespoke linker scripts out there :)  Is the behaviour I observed 
> an intentional? It is documented in the manual, but I found it surprising.

or rather the manual says the LMA spacing matches the VMA spacing, but does not 
mention this surprise if you set the VMA but not the LMA.

nathan
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