Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] m68knommu: Clean up linker script using new linkerscript macros.

[Greg Ungerer]

Hi Tim,

Tim Abbott wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Greg Ungerer wrote:
> > Tim Abbott wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > This results in kernels that don't boot for me. I haven't done
> > any more debugging than to just try booting at this time.
> [...]
> > Does that look like what you would have expected?
>
> Basically.  I'm a bit surprised that the .init_begin section doesn't show 
> up, but I'm pretty sure that this is because .init_begin would have had 
> size zero as the previous section's end was already page-aligned.
>
> > I suspect the problem may lie in the binary conversion of this
> > elf file to a raw binary for booting. This uses objcopy with
> > "-O binary". The resulting binary files are different in size
> > with and without the patch by about 2582 bytes. Suspicious
> > me thinks.
>
> I don't any good ideas for what in patch is likely to be responsible.  
> Would it be helpful to debug if I split this into ~5 very small patches so 
> that we can find out what part of the patch is responsible?

Yes, that will make it quick and easy for me.

Thanks
Greg



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