linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] i386 kernel instant reboot with older binutils fix

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Date:	Wed, 3 Jan 2007 16:02:27 +0100
From:	Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	vgoyal@...ibm.com
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Morton Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@....de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Fastboot mailing list <fastboot@...ts.osdl.org>,
	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 kernel instant reboot with older binutils fix

> Hopefully this patch should solve steve's issue too.

Sure looks like it.

> 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.

More exactly, since 2.15 more section names are automatically
recognised as being of a certain type; older binutils already
did this for plain .text, for example.  Just a nitpick, but
perhaps it explains the problem better; I'm fine with the
patch as-is.


Segher

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