2.6.0-test5 "incorrect section attributes for .plt"

[Cliff White]

> On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 02:23:42PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 00:58, Cliff White wrote:
> > > System is an iBook2,
> > > distro is Debian unstable
> > > kernel is 2.6.0-test5 or current from
> > > bk://ppc.bkbits.net/linuxppc-2.5
> > >
> > > gcc version 3.3.2 20030908 (Debian prerelease)
> > >
> > > When compiling modules, i get this warning, repeatedly:
> > >  CC [M]  sound/ppc/pmac.o
> > > {standard input}: Assembler messages:
> > > {standard input}:3: Warning: setting incorrect section attributes for .plt
> > >
> > > Then, this failure:
> > >
> > >   AS      arch/ppc/boot/common//util.o
> > > arch/ppc/boot/common/util.S: Assembler messages:
> > > arch/ppc/boot/common/util.S:220: Warning: setting incorrect section attributes
> > > for .relocate_code
> > > arch/ppc/boot/common//util.o: File truncated
> > > arch/ppc/boot/common/util.S:281: FATAL: Can't write
> > > arch/ppc/boot/common//util.o: File truncated
> > > make[2]: *** [arch/ppc/boot/common//util.o] Error 1
> > > make[1]: *** [arch/ppc/boot/common/] Error 2
> >
> > See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=211668 .
>
> I followed up on this to lkml/kernelnewbies, and then saw this so (and
> the bug# is cc'ed as well).  I suspect the problem is that binutils is
> no longer happy with:
> .section "foo","attrs"
> ... asm ...
> .previous
> \n
> \n
> EOF
> (and possibly just .previous\nEOF)
>
> But I don't think the .previous is needed anyhow, so if someone could
> verify that the following works (vs 2.6 current, but also a problem in
> 2.4)
>
> ===== arch/ppc/boot/common/util.S 1.6 vs edited =====
> --- 1.6/arch/ppc/boot/common/util.S	Thu Aug 21 10:17:00 2003
> +++ edited/arch/ppc/boot/common/util.S	Mon Sep 22 09:21:37 2003
> @@ -277,6 +277,3 @@
>  	addi	r3,r3,L1_CACHE_BYTES	/* Next line, please */
>  	bdnz	00b
>  10:	blr
> -
> -	.previous
> -
>
> I'll check this into the kernel.

I rebuilt binutils from source and was able to create a bootable kernel,
I will try this patch
cliffw

>
> --
> Tom Rini
> http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/


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