On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 05:41:39PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: > We are seeing an issue w/ld and kernel linking of 32-bit kernels. > > The ld from fedora 11 (2.19.51.0.2-17.fc11 20090204) ends not providing > the proper address for _end. > > Building stock v2.6.30 w/the mpc85xx_defconfig we get: > > 00001000 A _end > > Using 2.18.50.20080215 we get: > > c0680000 A _end > > If we modify the linker script: > > _end2 = .; > _end3 = ALIGN(4096); > _end4 = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); > . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); > _end = . ; > PROVIDE32 (end = .); > > and the result is: > > 00001000 A _end > c067f678 A _end2 > c0680000 A _end3 > c0680000 A _end4 > > I used an old version of linker (2.18.50.20080215) and re-linked: > > c067f678 A _end2 > c0680000 A _end > c0680000 A _end3 > c0680000 A _end4 > > Any ideas?
We have found the following workaround to be useful. Thanks to Andrew Jenner at Code Sourcery. -Dale Dale Farnsworth MontaVista Software diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index acf237f..34b0181 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -282,4 +282,7 @@ SECTIONS . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); _end = . ; PROVIDE32 (end = .); + +#undef PPC + .PPC.EMB.apuinfo 0 : { *(.PPC.EMB.apuinfo) } } _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev