From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev list <Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: Image generation for Efika is broken in 2.6.26
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:57:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080610165719.GA5139@loki.buserror.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910806100738rac8e415x99f6e96715ebee90@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:38:31AM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> Why is my vmlinux.strip 3.2GB? Could a missing address be interpreted
> as -1 (0xFFF..) and cause the image to contain all of memory?
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 jonsmirl jonsmirl 61738015 2008-06-10 10:31 vmlinux.o
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 jonsmirl jonsmirl 3224175192 2008-06-10 10:31 vmlinux.strip.3651
>
> After it is packed vmlinux is 32MB. Packing gigabytes of zeros, maybe?
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 jonsmirl jonsmirl 32430673 2008-06-10 10:31 vmlinux
>
> This image won't load onto the Efika probably because it is trying to
> expand back to 3.2GB.
>
> With the same .config vmlinux is 4.1MB on 2.6.25
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 jonsmirl jonsmirl 4119174 2008-06-09 20:09 vmlinux
Are you using binutils 2.17? It has a bug that was triggered by the p_paddr
change. Do you get a bunch of warnings from the strip command?
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-10 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-10 14:38 Image generation for Efika is broken in 2.6.26 Jon Smirl
2008-06-10 16:57 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2008-06-10 17:44 ` Jon Smirl
2008-06-10 19:08 ` Jon Smirl
2008-06-11 5:29 ` Robert Schwebel
2008-06-11 7:20 ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2008-06-11 13:28 ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2008-06-11 16:53 ` Scott Wood
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