2.4.20-ben8 vmlinux.coff CLAIM error on PowerMac 4400

mikpe at csd.uu.se mikpe at csd.uu.se
Sat Mar 15 03:01:40 EST 2003


Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
 >
 > > vmlinux.coff built from 2.4.18, both vanilla and with Olaf's patch in
 > > http://penguinppc.org/~olaf/2.4.18/01_linux-2.4.18-rc4-lxppc_devel-0.diff.gz,
 > > boots Ok. However, 2.4.18 has the "excessively slow swim3 floppy writes"
 > > problem I mentioned earlier that 2.2.24 doesn't have.
 > >
 > > I also tried 2.4.20-ben8 with coffmain.c from 2.4.18 as you suggested,
 > > but it got the same CLAIM error as before. (hack-coff.c was unchanged
 > > and I didn't find anything else coff-related.)
 >
 > Can you try -ben8 and change _both_ ALIGN(8) to ALIGN(4096) ?

In ld.script you mean? I noticed the second ALIGN(8) for bss and
changed it to 4096 yesterday: it doesn't fix the problem.

/Mikael

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