Required functions for relocating not part of relocate section

Tom Rini trini at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Nov 8 03:22:15 EST 2005


On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 04:06:05PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> Hi Paul,
> 
> Recent 2.6-git (from Wednesday) tree fails to boot on 8xx due to:
[snip]
> Problem is that flush_instruction_cache (and flush_data_cache)
> from boot/common/util.S are not being copied to the relocate section,
> even though the file contains the proper entry:
> 
>         .section ".relocate_code","xa"
[snip]
> The problem does not exist on v2.6.14.

What version of binutils / etc?  I recall a change in that area of code,
but I thought it went in for 2.6.14..

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