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SubjectRe: Linux 2.6.30.2: does not boot
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On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Kiko Piris wrote:
> > > Just to clarify:
> > >
> > > - you literally have a _working_ 2.6.30.1 that you compiled yourself a
> > > few days ago.
> >
> > That’s correct.
> >
> > > - But when you try to compile that same kernel _now_, it fails with an
> > > immediate reboot? And not just 2.6.30.2, but 2.6.30.1 does that too?
> >
> > Also correct.
> >
> > > That certainly implies something else than just the -fwrapv vs
> > > -fno-strict-overflow thing.
> >
> > Yes, as Marcel Beister pointed, it resulted some binutils bug.
> > Downgrading the package produced a perfectly bootable 2.6.30.2.
>
> Ok, so it's been narrowed down to binutils. Good.
>
> > > But we may be looking at two different issues, so maybe your "unable to
> > > compile a working kernel" issue is different from the other reports.
> >
> > Totally unrelated to other reports, and not a kernel bug, in fact.
>
> Well, it's still not entirely clear that it's unrelated.
>
> It seems that all the people involved are running Debian/sid, and I don't
> think we have any firm confirmation yet that it's the compiler flag for
> anybody. It was certainly the primary suspect, but maybe that was always
> just a red herring guess.
>
> Wolfgang hasn't actually tried to compile without the -fno-strict-overflow
> flag yet, and maybe his hang is the same binutils bug.

Yes, it is.

I built with -fwrapv instead of -fno-strict-overflow and without either, both
fail to boot.

Downgrading binutils to those of debian/testing and the unmodified 2.6.30.2
works.

So this seems to be indeed a problem with binutils in debian/sids.

Regards,
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