2.4.20-ben8 vmlinux.coff CLAIM error on PowerMac 4400

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Mar 15 03:13:53 EST 2003


On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 17:01, mikpe at csd.uu.se wrote:
> 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.

Ok, thanks

Ben.


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