[Xen-ia64-devel] Re: tools/ioemu/ia64.ld ?
Hi Xiantao, Zhang, Xiantao wrote: [Thu Feb 21 2008, 09:24:32PM EST] Hi, Aron The fix for kvm is just for moving the code section to region 2, and has no other purposes :) Okay, thanks. I guess you can remove it and use the default, since ia64 arch has no special requirment for it. Since nobody has said otherwise, and testing seems to be fine, I submitted the patch. Thanks, Aron ___ Xen-ia64-devel mailing list Xen-ia64-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-ia64-devel
[Xen-ia64-devel] RE: tools/ioemu/ia64.ld ?
Aron Griffis wrote: Hi, Does anybody know why xen's ioemu has its own custom linker script? This was inherited from qemu, apparently contributed by David Mosberger over 2 years ago. It's been patched for kvm (see http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg10306.htm l) but as far as I can see, that's essentially bringing part of it up to date with the default linker script in binutils. Hi, Aron The fix for kvm is just for moving the code section to region 2, and has no other purposes :) I'm asking about this because it's the last thing in the way of a clean cross build of xen tools. You can see the build failure at http://markmail.org/message/zowwwfs3mdipseiv The first failure in that message is because the custom linker script was using the wrong library directories. That is easily fixed. The second build failure is opaque to me: ../../xenstore/libxenstore.so: undefined reference to [EMAIL PROTECTED]' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status However, if I comment out the linker script in the Makefile then the build works, and hvm domains seem to run fine built with the default linker script. When I diff ia64.ld to Debian's /usr/lib/ldscripts/elf64_ia64.x I don't see anything significant, but I'm not an expert in this area. Can anybody tell me why we need this? If not, I'll submit a patch to remove it. I guess you can remove it and use the default, since ia64 arch has no special requirment for it. Xiantao ___ Xen-ia64-devel mailing list Xen-ia64-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-ia64-devel
