On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 09:46:45AM +0530, Vivek Goyal wrote:
>
> o i386 kernel reboots instantly if compiled with binutils older than
> 2.6.15.
Should that have been "2.15"?
And is the following perhaps the same issue?
Subject : kernel immediately reboots instead of booting
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/2/15
Submitter : Steve Youngs <[email protected]>
Status : unknown
@Steve:
You had binutils 2.14.90.0.6 .
Does this patch fix it for you?
> o Older binutils required explicit flags to mark a section allocatable
> and executable(AX). Newer binutils automatically mark a section AX if
> the name starts with .text.
>
> o While defining a new section using assembler "section" directive,
> explicitly mention section flags.
>
> Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <[email protected]>
> ---
>
> arch/i386/boot/compressed/head.S | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff -puN arch/i386/boot/compressed/head.S~jean-reboot-issue-fix arch/i386/boot/compressed/head.S
> --- linux-2.6.20-rc2-reloc/arch/i386/boot/compressed/head.S~jean-reboot-issue-fix 2007-01-02 09:54:56.000000000 +0530
> +++ linux-2.6.20-rc2-reloc-root/arch/i386/boot/compressed/head.S 2007-01-02 09:57:46.000000000 +0530
> @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
> #include <asm/page.h>
> #include <asm/boot.h>
>
> -.section ".text.head"
> +.section ".text.head","ax",@progbits
> .globl startup_32
>
> startup_32:
> _
cu
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