binutils 2.19 issue with kernel link

[Kumar Gala]

On Jul 8, 2009, at 10:39 PM, Kumar Gala wrote:

>
> On Jul 8, 2009, at 6:39 PM, Alan Modra wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 05:41:39PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>>> If we modify the linker script:
>>>
>>>     _end2 = .;
>>>     _end3 = ALIGN(4096);
>>>     _end4 = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
>>>     . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
>>>     _end = . ;
>>>     PROVIDE32 (end = .);
>>>
>>> and the result is:
>>>
>>> 00001000 A _end
>>> c067f678 A _end2
>>> c0680000 A _end3
>>> c0680000 A _end4
>>
>> Possibly some section with a zero vma is being placed before _end.
>> Generate a link map to see if this is so.
>
> Playing with this further I think its related to the -me500 option  
> we pass and thus wondering if its something with the APU section  
> handling.  If I hack the kernel up a little and pass -m440 instead  
> things seem to be ok.

To further verify this if I switch the -me500 to -mspe and build  
things seem to be ok.  This further points at some APU section related  
bug.

- k