Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.18-mm1 compile failure on x86_64 | From | Ian Campbell <> | Date | Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:08:49 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 12:26 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > We can probably revert the notes patch for now, since it is only > needed for Xen which isn't even merged yet.
We could apply the fix which moves the .bss after the .data sections. The bug report after you originally applied that patch looked to me like it was an existing bug which was exposed so it would probably be worth tracking down the root cause of that one rather than rejecting that patch as a possible solution.
The xen-unstable tree has had the .bss movement patch in for a couple of weeks now with no reported bugs. We are frozen for the release 3.0.3 so at least in theory people should be testing it pretty hard ;-)
> Ian, do you think you can do the notes in some different way that still > works with old binutils?
I'm not sure. I think the notes themselves are generated fine the problem lies in the change to the linker script to gather all the .notes.* sections into the same PT_NOTES segment, that is something Jeremy did for i386 and I just copied.
Do the notes really need to be gathered together? I we could make Xen look for .notes.* sections as well as the PT_NOTES segment but I would prefer to use the segment if possible...
Ian.
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