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Message-ID: <m23a2egmdx.fsf@igel.home>
Date:	Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:44:26 +0100
From:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	Michael Schmitz <schmitz@...phys.uni-duesseldorf.de>,
	Tim Abbott <tabbott@...lice.com>, linux-m68k@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "m68k: Cleanup linker scripts using new linker script macros." and  old binutils (was: Re: [PATCH] m68k: Atari EtherNAT - Nicolas Pitre has a new  email address)

Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> writes:

> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 05:56, Michael Schmitz
> <schmitz@...phys.uni-duesseldorf.de> wrote:
>>> > > I'll verify that on the new tree, and start bisecting. Sigh.
>>> >
>>> > Good luck!
>>>
>>> 7c5fd5619dc89fb52d2c2cf144fc6e4365427b86 is first bad commit
>>> commit 7c5fd5619dc89fb52d2c2cf144fc6e4365427b86
>>> Author: Tim Abbott <tabbott@...lice.com>
>>> Date:   Sun Sep 27 13:57:55 2009 -0400
>>>
>>>     m68k: Cleanup linker scripts using new linker script macros.
>>>
>>>     Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@...lice.com>
>>>     Tested-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org>
>>>     Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
>>>     Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
>>>     Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
>>>
>>> :040000 040000 5bdbf7ce5dd4ea2f23669c6a6ec11192865b5bfa
>>> d3b7397533b0af6261747ccef3cff9cd40f6baf9 M    arch
>>
>> Backing out that commit on the top of the tree results in a bootable
>> 2.6.33-rc2 for me
>>
>> The order of symbols in the system map is different (as you would expect)
>> but I don't see what implicit assumption would be violated.
>
> Tim, any clues? Michael is using gcc 3.3.6 and binutils 2.16.
> It works fine with my 4.1.2/2.18 vombo.

Most likely an alignment issue so that the bootinfo structure is not
found.  At least that was the issue with previous incarnations of the
patch.

Andreas.

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