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SubjectRe: 2.6.9-mm1 : compile error & question
Selon Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>:

> Hi Remi,
>
> On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 03:30, Remi Colinet wrote:
>
> > Sections:
> > Idx Name Size VMA LMA File off Algn
> > 0 .text 0037d80e c0100000 00100000 00001000 2**12
> > <-- something wrong here for LMA used to be 0xc010 000
>
>
> This has been changed so that LMA (Load memory address) reflects the
> physical address where sections shall be loaded. This is required to
> make sure that a kexec boot can load a vmlinux image.

Does it mean that the .text LMA start address is going to be definitively 0010
0000, even for those who disable kexec in their .config file?

>
>
>
> > CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
> > 26 .bss 0006dfa0 c06c6000 c06c6000 005c7000 2**12 <--
> > somthing wrong with LMA for .bss.
> > CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
> > 27 .comment 0000c36f 00000000 00000000 00634fa0 2**0
> > CONTENTS, READONLY
> > 28 .debug_line 0021497b 00000000 00000000 0064130f 2**0
> > ...
> >
> > This is very strange. The .text LMA of the vmlinux file is at 0x__0__010
> > 0000 whereas, it used to be at 0x__c__010 0000. But then, the .bss LMA
> > of the vmlinux file suddenly jump at 0x__c__06c 6000 instead of
> > 0x__0__06c 6000 which would have seemed more natural -0). What can
> > cause this offset? I have look for the .bss section content. It contains
> > .bss data and .bss.page_aligned. The later seems to be the root of the
> > .bss LMA offset. .bss.page_aligned contains then empty_zero_page and
> > the swapper_pg_dir.
>
> This looks like a problem with the older binutils package. I had faced
> similar problem on one of the machines but it was resolved as soon as I
> switched to a newer binutils package.

My distro is effectively becoming old (FC1). Going to upgrade it.

Thanks
Remi


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