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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: vgoyal@in.ibm.com
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Morton Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Fastboot mailing list <fastboot@lists.osdl.org>,
	Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>,
	linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 kernel instant reboot with older binutils fix
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 16:02:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3cbf78b7065f2e1822c9e9f4c193a788@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070103141807.GA8236@in.ibm.com>

> Hopefully this patch should solve steve's issue too.

Sure looks like it.

> o Older binutils required explicit flags to mark a section allocatable
>   and executable(AX). Newer binutils automatically mark a section AX if
>   the name starts with .text.

More exactly, since 2.15 more section names are automatically
recognised as being of a certain type; older binutils already
did this for plain .text, for example.  Just a nitpick, but
perhaps it explains the problem better; I'm fine with the
patch as-is.


Segher


  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-03 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-03  4:16 [PATCH] i386 kernel instant reboot with older binutils fix Vivek Goyal
2007-01-03  6:44 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-01-03  6:55   ` Vivek Goyal
2007-01-03  7:50     ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-01-03 13:53 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-01-03 14:18   ` Vivek Goyal
2007-01-03 15:02     ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2007-01-03 14:18   ` Jean Delvare

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