On 06/06/2014 10:08 AM, Hán Shěn (沈涵) wrote: > A gentle ping? > > On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Hán Shěn (沈涵) <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi we are trying to boot up a x86_64 chrome book using binutils 2.24 and >> kernel 3.8, but failed. >> >> After some triage work, we found that a 2-year-old binutil CL changed the >> interpretation of "." in linker script （short story: absolute -> relative, >> long story: https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2012-06/msg00155.html). >> >> After some further work, we are able to boot the kernel with a kernel patch >> pasted at EOM. I am curious, why the upstream kernel is never hit by this >> behavior? We enabled "CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA", so we were hit, is this some >> macro not usually turned on?
What does a section-relative symbol do? --Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
