From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: weber@corscience.de (Thomas Weber)
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:35:28 +0100
Subject: [PATCHv2] ARM: zImage: Use $(CROSS_COMPILE)size to get .bss size
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Am 13.10.2011 20:56, schrieb Nicolas Pitre:
> On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 08:50:22AM +0200, Thomas Weber wrote:
>>> Use $(CROSS_COMPILE)size to determine the bss size
>>> from vmlinux.
>>>
>>> The problem is introduced in:
>>>
>>> commit 5ffb04f6690d71fab241b3562ebf52b893ac4ff1
>>> ARM: zImage: make sure appended DTB doesn't get
>>> overwritten by kernel .bss
>>>
>>> This fixes following error message:
>>>
>>> size: arch/arm/boot/compressed/../../../../vmlinux:
>>> File format is ambiguous
>>>
>>> size: Matching formats:
>>> elf32-littlearm
>>> elf32-littlearm-symbian
>>> elf32-littlearm-vxworks
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
>>> Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weber <weber@corscience.de>
>> This is going to totally break my ability to build any kernels at the
>> moment - for some reason I don't have an arm-linux-size with all the
>> other bits of binutils, so I've been relying on the x86 version so far.
> Naive suggestion: ln -s /usr/bin/size arm-linux-size
>
>
> Nicolas
>
>
Hello Russell,

what is the status of this patch?

Thomas