On 6/10/08, Jon Smirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/10/08, Scott Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.strip.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 > > > > > > 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? > > > I don't see any warnings even when run make V=1. > > I'm using the Pengutronix OSELAS.Toolchain-1.1.1 which has bunutils 2.17 in > it. > > I'm trying to convince OSELAS to rebuild the toolchain on Ubuntu hardy > but I'm having problems.
After much mucking with my toolchain, I got it built with bin-utils 2.18. That fixed the Efika problem. Thanks for the tip. > > > > > > > -Scott > > > > > > -- > Jon Smirl > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev