[PATCH v2] powerpc/vmlinux.lds: Drop binutils < 2.18 workarounds
Christophe Leroy
christophe.leroy at c-s.fr
Fri Apr 5 01:58:16 AEDT 2019
Le 04/04/2019 à 16:53, Segher Boessenkool a écrit :
> Hi Joel,
>
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 12:17:40PM +0000, Joel Stanley wrote:
>> On Fri, 29 Mar 2019 at 09:53, Segher Boessenkool
>> <segher at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 05:14:53PM +1030, Joel Stanley wrote:
>>>> - NOTES :kernel :notes
>>>> + NOTES
>>>
>>> I think this still need to be
>>>
>>> NOTES :kernel
>>>
>>> or the linker will complain. Did you try to build ppc64_defconfig?
>>
>> Yeah, I did build (and boot, in qemu) the ppc64_defconfig. I tried
>> leaving in/removing the :kernel annotation in a bunch of places and as
>> long as I had it in the first spot, the kernel linked.
>>
>> Shall I respin with this added?
>
> Yes please, if only so we are testing the exact same thing :-)
>
> There may be a binutils version difference here.
>
>>> (And I do not know if there are any tools that expect the notes in a phdr,
>>> or even specifically the second phdr).
>
> ^^^ This question remains?
A few days ago while I was investigating
https://github.com/linuxppc/issues/issues/208 , I had the feeling that
QEMU expects some sort of NOTES section.
I didn't investigate further though.
Christophe
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