Linux 3.0 boot failure on the Powerbook G4

Michael Büsch m at bues.ch
Sun Jul 24 22:37:29 EST 2011


On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 22:13:34 +1000
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > I'm booting zImage.pmac.
> 
> Ah that might make it easier... I don't remember where it links, can you
> show me the program headers out of readelf -a of the zImage ?

As I recompiled stuff, here's the current failure log:
http://bues.ch/misc/linux-3.0-pbook-2.jpg

And this is the corresponding readelf output:

mb at maggie:~$ readelf -a /boot/linux.a
ELF Header:
  Magic:   7f 45 4c 46 01 02 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
  Class:                             ELF32
  Data:                              2's complement, big endian
  Version:                           1 (current)
  OS/ABI:                            UNIX - System V
  ABI Version:                       0
  Type:                              EXEC (Executable file)
  Machine:                           PowerPC
  Version:                           0x1
  Entry point address:               0x400230
  Start of program headers:          52 (bytes into file)
  Start of section headers:          5769716 (bytes into file)
  Flags:                             0x8000, relocatable-lib
  Size of this header:               52 (bytes)
  Size of program headers:           32 (bytes)
  Number of program headers:         2
  Size of section headers:           40 (bytes)
  Number of section headers:         12
  Section header string table index: 9

Section Headers:
  [Nr] Name              Type            Addr     Off    Size   ES Flg Lk Inf Al
  [ 0]                   NULL            00000000 000000 000000 00      0   0  0
  [ 1] .text             PROGBITS        00400000 010000 0048b0 00  AX  0   0  4
  [ 2] .data             PROGBITS        00405000 015000 0012f8 00  WA  0   0  4
  [ 3] .got              PROGBITS        004062f8 0162f8 00000c 04  WA  0   0  4
  [ 4] __builtin_cmdline PROGBITS        00406304 016304 000200 00  WA  0   0  4
  [ 5] .kernel:vmlinux.s PROGBITS        00407000 017000 569952 00   A  0   0  1
  [ 6] .bss              NOBITS          00971000 580952 00bc70 00  WA  0   0  4
  [ 7] .comment          PROGBITS        00000000 580952 00001c 01  MS  0   0  1
  [ 8] .gnu.attributes   LOOS+ffffff5    00000000 58096e 000014 00      0   0  1
  [ 9] .shstrtab         STRTAB          00000000 580982 000072 00      0   0  1
  [10] .symtab           SYMTAB          00000000 580bd4 000780 10     11  55  4
  [11] .strtab           STRTAB          00000000 581354 0004f3 00      0   0  1
Key to Flags:
  W (write), A (alloc), X (execute), M (merge), S (strings)
  I (info), L (link order), G (group), x (unknown)
  O (extra OS processing required) o (OS specific), p (processor specific)

There are no section groups in this file.

Program Headers:
  Type           Offset   VirtAddr   PhysAddr   FileSiz MemSiz  Flg Align
  LOAD           0x010000 0x00400000 0x00400000 0x570952 0x57cc70 RWE 0x10000
  GNU_STACK      0x000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000 0x00000 RWE 0x4

 Section to Segment mapping:
  Segment Sections...
   00     .text .data .got __builtin_cmdline .kernel:vmlinux.strip .bss 
   01     

There is no dynamic section in this file.

There are no relocations in this file.

There are no unwind sections in this file.

Symbol table '.symtab' contains 120 entries:
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     8: 00000000     0 SECTION LOCAL  DEFAULT    8 
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    20: 00000007     0 NOTYPE  LOCAL  DEFAULT  ABS RELA
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No version information found in this file.
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  Tag_GNU_Power_ABI_Vector: Generic
  Tag_GNU_Power_ABI_Struct_Return: Memory


-- 
Greetings, Michael.


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