linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86_64: Reflect the relocatability of the kernel in the ELF header.

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Message-ID: <20070501062554.GT25929@bingen.suse.de>
Date:	Tue, 1 May 2007 08:25:55 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	vgoyal@...ibm.com, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	Kexec Mailing List <kexec@...ts.infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jurriaan <thunder7@...all.nl>,
	Helge Hafting <helgehaf@...el.hist.no>,
	Horms <horms@...ge.net.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86_64: Reflect the relocatability of the kernel in the ELF header.

On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 11:26:50PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...ibm.com> writes:
> 
> 
> >> At least without a core file it is working on with gdb 6.4.
> >>
> >
> > This seems to be a problem with gdb 6.5. I transferred the dump to a
> > different machine having GNU gdb 6.4, and it works fine there.
> 
> Ok.  The difference between those two symbols didn't seem to make
> any sense, so a gdb bug makes sense.
> 
> Cool.  Then the patch is good. :)

It would still make any gdb 6.5 users unhappy. If no workaround can be found
I guess we'll need a CONFIG of some sort?

-Andi
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