Hi,
I've just been trying to debug a kernel problem that someone reported
against 2.3.18 on the latest kernel (2.3.22), but hit a rather major
snag.
binutils 2.9.1.0.19a and 2.9.1.0.25 suffer from a case of the random
changing opcode syndrome. I've checked the surface of the machine for
bacteria and viruses ;)
Anyway, what seems to be happening is that certain 'b' instructions get
converted to 'bl', since it appears that for PC_ARM_24 relocations in
a relocatable link just have the correction added to them. ie,
eafffffe -> eb000043 instead of ea000043
This oddity seems to be fixed in binutils 2.9.5.0.16.
If you intend to build 2.3.xx kernels, please do not use binutils 2.9.1.
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