linux-kernel - Re: Patch "i386: Relocatable kernel support" causes instant reboot

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Date:	Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:55:54 +0100
From:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
To:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...ibm.com>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Patch "i386: Relocatable kernel support" causes instant reboot

Hi Vivek,

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:11:26 +0530, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> What's the value of CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN? How much RAM is present in your
> system? Though very unlikely, just trying to find that we are not running
> short of RAM while trying to align the kernel to a large value.

CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN=0x100000
(which is the default as far as I know)
The system has 512 MB RAM.

> Can you please provide your config file. Is it possible to provide your
> bzImage? Can you upload it somewhere? Will try to boot it on my box just
> to find out if it could be in some way related to compiler/linker.

http://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/linux/relocatable-bug/

gcc version is 3.2.3
ld version is 2.14.90.0.6

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare
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