Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Jan 2007 14:53:26 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] i386 kernel instant reboot with older binutils fix |
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On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 09:46:45AM +0530, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > o i386 kernel reboots instantly if compiled with binutils older than > 2.6.15.
Should that have been "2.15"?
And is the following perhaps the same issue?
Subject : kernel immediately reboots instead of booting References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/2/15 Submitter : Steve Youngs <steve@youngs.au.com> Status : unknown
@Steve: You had binutils 2.14.90.0.6 . Does this patch fix it for you?
> o Older binutils required explicit flags to mark a section allocatable > and executable(AX). Newer binutils automatically mark a section AX if > the name starts with .text. > > o While defining a new section using assembler "section" directive, > explicitly mention section flags. > > Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> > Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> > --- > > arch/i386/boot/compressed/head.S | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff -puN arch/i386/boot/compressed/head.S~jean-reboot-issue-fix arch/i386/boot/compressed/head.S > --- linux-2.6.20-rc2-reloc/arch/i386/boot/compressed/head.S~jean-reboot-issue-fix 2007-01-02 09:54:56.000000000 +0530 > +++ linux-2.6.20-rc2-reloc-root/arch/i386/boot/compressed/head.S 2007-01-02 09:57:46.000000000 +0530 > @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ > #include <asm/page.h> > #include <asm/boot.h> > > -.section ".text.head" > +.section ".text.head","ax",@progbits > .globl startup_32 > > startup_32: > _
cu Adrian
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