From: Sean MacLennan <smaclennan@pikatech.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Work around ld bug in older binutils
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:58:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081027205838.5f1fcbff@lappy.seanm.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18688.257.812926.680480@drongo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:43:45 +1100
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote:
> Commit 549e8152de8039506f69c677a4546e5427aa6ae7 ("powerpc: Make the
> 64-bit kernel as a position-independent executable") added lines to
> vmlinux.lds.S to add the extra sections needed to implement a
> relocatable kernel. However, those lines seem to trigger a bug in
> older versions of GNU ld (such as 2.16.1) when building a
> non-relocatable kernel. Since ld 2.16.1 is still a popular choice for
> cross-toolchains, this adds an #ifdef to vmlinux.lds.S so the added
> lines are only included when building a relocatable kernel.
I'd like to try this. I did a git revert to back out the aforementioned
commit. How do I get it back? Do I git revert again?
Cheers,
Sean
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-28 0:58 UTC|newest]
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2008-10-23 4:43 [PATCH] Work around ld bug in older binutils Paul Mackerras
2008-10-28 0:58 ` Sean MacLennan [this message]
2008-10-28 3:05 ` Paul Mackerras
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