Re: 2.4 kernels + >=binutils-2.14.90.0.8

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 12:49:02PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> >  Essentially all platforms that currently set the address to something
> > that's not aligned to a 64kB boundry.  I'd like binutils to be fixed
> > instead, though -- I'll try to track the problem down and cook a patch
> > before 2.15.  I think the problem may be considered serious enough the
> > release may even be deferred for a few days if necessary (since I believe
> > it's quite close).
> 
>  After a study of the relevant BFD code, I'm now pretty sure it does its
> job right -- the .text section which is placed at a fixed offset by the
> linker script only imposes an alignment of 4 and the 64kB alignment is
> required by the segment the section is placed in.  So BFD does the right 
> job by lowering the segment's VMA so that the .text section is placed at 
> the requested offset.
> 
>  What's important, segment alignment happens under the assumption a binary 
> will be used in a paged environment.  This is not normally the case with a 
> MIPS Linux kernel, so I think the right solution is to ask the linker not 
> to do page aligning using the "-n" option.  Here's a patch that should do 
> that.
> 
>  Ralf, OK to apply this?

Sure, I don't see any possible drawback from this.

  Ralf