Previous threads have mentioned that binutil-2.17 is broken for building powerpc kernels. It is fixed in binutils-2.18.
Yes.
I have encountered this and upgrading to 2.18 fixed my build. The symptom is large kernel sizes and a long time in gzip. In my case it was gziping a 2GB file.
Are you using a "binary" (non-ELF) image file? This sounds like a different problem, caused by the kernel linker script not handling the build-id section correctly -- it places it at 0, and the rest of the kernel at 3GB, you can imagine the rest. I've seen this on various embedded targets, but not on PowerPC iirc -- maybe I don't build any affected defconfig, what's yours? I have a working (tested! thanks Milton) workaround for the current problem, will send it later today. This problem funnily is hidden by the presence of build-id :-) Segher _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
