Without the attached patch, the current GIT trees fail to build for me
with error:
ld: .tmp_vmlinux1: section `.text' can't be allocated in segment 0
ld: final link failed: Bad value
This is with binutils v2.17.50.20070804 and is apparently due to the
recent --build-id changes (see
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.2/3490.html).
I may not have picked the best possible place to stick the NOTES macro
(according to Roland, it should only be a few read-only bytes that are
hardly ever read), but at least the kernel builds again and it even
seems to boot (on my zx2000, anyhow). ;-)
Thanks to HJ Lu for his help in tracking down this bug.
--david
--
Mosberger Consulting LLC, http://www.mosberger-consulting.com/
[IA64] Add NOTES to linker script such that the kernel can be built with
recent versions of binutils. Without this patch, final link fails
with this error:
ld: .tmp_vmlinux1: section `.text' can't be allocated in segment 0
ld: final link failed: Bad value
This error is due to the fact that the --build-id option is used
with newer linkers to include a .notes section on the kernel, but
without the NOTES macro, that section won't be included in the kernel
which then leads to the above error message.
Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/ia64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 83e8067..71eb550 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ SECTIONS
/* Read-only data */
+ NOTES
+
/* Exception table */
. = ALIGN(16);
__ex_table : AT(ADDR(__ex_table) - LOAD_OFFSET)
