Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:18:39 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: revert CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y defconfig change |
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Andi Kleen wrote: > > it would be better to find some way to fix up the debug information > (perhaps this can be done with the right ld parameters?) > > Changing defconfig doesn't really fix the problem because there will > be still lots of kernel configurations around with > CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y >
Fixing the debug information is definitely necessary. This is merely a stopgap. There has been a bug report about the relocatable kernel's symbol information for a while, but there seems to be no forward progress at fixing those. I might end up taking a look at it.
-hpa
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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