From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <484FD30B.3020105@pengutronix.de> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:28:43 +0200 From: Marc Kleine-Budde MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Wood References: <9e4733910806100738rac8e415x99f6e96715ebee90@mail.gmail.com> <20080610165719.GA5139@loki.buserror.net> In-Reply-To: <20080610165719.GA5139@loki.buserror.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig415091A65DFD5283FA788FD2" Subject: Re: Image generation for Efika is broken in 2.6.26 Cc: linuxppc-dev list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig415091A65DFD5283FA788FD2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Scott Wood wrote: > 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.st= rip.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 >=20 > 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? Same problem here with binutils-2.17. But no warnings from strip. Can you give me some pointers to the original bug report or the fix of the problem in the binutils svn. I've searched this mailinglist and the binutils bugzilla, but without success. cheers, Marc --=20 Marc Kleine-Budde Phone: +49-231-2826-924 Pengutronix - Linux Solutions for Science and Industry Vertretung West/Dortmund http://www.pengutronix.de --------------enig415091A65DFD5283FA788FD2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIT9MLjTAFq1RaXHMRAjf3AJ9M0qghg35Djqc0EmHg3Wl3nb1QUgCgh212 hw3c632K6pOkUNHjIVWZeSQ= =qb/o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig415091A65DFD5283FA788FD2--