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[Bug gold/16788] Gold produces unbootable Linux kernel
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luto at mit dot edu |
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[Bug gold/16788] Gold produces unbootable Linux kernel |
Date: |
Tue, 01 Apr 2014 17:25:53 +0000 |
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16788
--- Comment #7 from Andy Lutomirski <luto at mit dot edu> ---
(In reply to Cary Coutant from comment #6)
> (In reply to Andy Lutomirski from comment #4)
> > It looks like gold has a different interpretation of what ":text = 0x9090"
> > means than the bfd linker. Can you try changing that to ":text =
> > 0x90909090" in arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S?
> >
> > This is definitely a gold bug, or at least a difference between gold and
> > bfd, but I doubt it's causing your problem, since using :text = 0x00009090
> > on bfd still produces a working kernel for me.
> >
> > That being said, I just generated a working kernel with GNU gold (version
> > 2.23.2) 1.11. Can you post a kernel image or a config or something?
>
> Yes, in gold, the fill value is always 4 bytes in length. There's a FIXME in
> the code to support arbitrary lengths, but that seems unlikely to be the
> problem here.
Fixing it for one and two bytes would be trivial :)
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