2.4.20-ben8 vmlinux.coff CLAIM error on PowerMac 4400

[Olaf Hering]

 On Thu, Mar 13, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> what are the respective sizes of the working 2.4.6 kernel
> and my non working 2.4.20 ? Can you try to shrink the 2.4.20
> down to the 2.4.6 size (removing drivers etc...) and see if
> that helps ?

There are 2 problems.
My 'loading data' failure must be fixed by page alignment.

diff -purN linux_ppc.orig/arch/ppc/boot/ld.script linux_ppc/arch/ppc/boot/ld.script
--- linux_ppc.orig/arch/ppc/boot/ld.script      2002-11-27 14:42:42.000000000 +0000
+++ linux_ppc/arch/ppc/boot/ld.script   2002-11-27 18:53:34.000000000 +0000
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ SECTIONS
   PROVIDE (etext = .);

   /* Read-write section, merged into data segment: */
-  . = ALIGN(8);
+  /* this must be page aligned for OF 1.05 in old Macs, for coff boot */
+  . = ALIGN(0x1000);
   .data    :
   {
     *(.data)

The second problem might be related, I remember Eddie can not boot
anymore with recent kernels and the patch above doesnt fix it. It is
probably still unfixed, and the cause unknown.


Gruss Olaf

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