Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:46:32 +1000 | From | Greg Ungerer <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] m68knommu: Clean up linker script using new linker script macros. |
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Hi Tim,
Tim Abbott wrote: > On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Greg Ungerer wrote: >> Tim Abbott wrote: >>> Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com> >>> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> >> This results in kernels that don't boot for me. I haven't done >> any more debugging than to just try booting at this time. > [...] >> Does that look like what you would have expected? > > Basically. I'm a bit surprised that the .init_begin section doesn't show > up, but I'm pretty sure that this is because .init_begin would have had > size zero as the previous section's end was already page-aligned. > >> I suspect the problem may lie in the binary conversion of this >> elf file to a raw binary for booting. This uses objcopy with >> "-O binary". The resulting binary files are different in size >> with and without the patch by about 2582 bytes. Suspicious >> me thinks. > > I don't any good ideas for what in patch is likely to be responsible. > Would it be helpful to debug if I split this into ~5 very small patches so > that we can find out what part of the patch is responsible?
Yes, that will make it quick and easy for me.
Thanks Greg
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