Subject: Re: binutils 2.19 issue with kernel link

From: Dale Farnsworth <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 12:06:21 -0700

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 01:14:28PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> On Jul 9, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Dale Farnsworth wrote:
>> We have found the following workaround to be useful.
>> Thanks to Andrew Jenner at Code Sourcery.
>>
>> -Dale
>>
>> Dale Farnsworth
>> MontaVista Software
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ 
>> vmlinux.lds.S
>> index acf237f..34b0181 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
>> @@ -282,4 +282,7 @@ SECTIONS
>> 	. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
>> 	_end = . ;
>> 	PROVIDE32 (end = .);
>> +
>> +#undef PPC
>> +	.PPC.EMB.apuinfo 0 : { *(.PPC.EMB.apuinfo) }
>> }
>
> Is there any plans to fix binutils or is this viewed as not a binutils  
> regression?

It sure looks like a regression to me, but I don't have details on
a potential fix.

-Dale