Image generation for Efika is broken in 2.6.26

[Jon Smirl]

On 6/10/08, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/10/08, Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> 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.


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>  >  -Scott
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>  --
>  Jon Smirl
>  jonsmirl at gmail.com
>


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Jon Smirl
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