Help needed to track down bug: linking Linux kernel with gold creates unbootable kernel

[Ian Lance Taylor]

"H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> writes:

> Linux kernel linker scripts needs to align .rodata section to 2MB:
>
> . = ALIGN((1 << 21));
>
> Since gold can only align to 4K, gold can't be used on Linux
> kernel.

gold can of course align to larger values.  That's why both GNU ld and
gold have the -z maxpagesize option.  Are the Linux kernel developers
willing to use that option?

Ian