current binutils trunk fails to build bootable kernel image for some configurations

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Wed Jul 22 17:37:00 GMT 2009


On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Matthias Klose<doko@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> this was reported as http://bugs.debian.org/537389, I currently don't have
> much more information, besides that one of the Debian kernel maintainers did
> identify
>
> 2009-07-11  Alan Modra  <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
>
>        * ldlang.c (insert_os_after): Don't tie assignments to non-alloc
>        output sections.
>
> this patch as the one causing the wrongly built kernel. However I don't see
> this checkin mentioned on the ML. Bastian Blank did check that the problem
> goes away with a binutils build from trunk and this patch reverted. Some
> more analysis in http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/21/400
>

Please open a binutls bug report.

Thanks.


-- 
H.J.



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