linux-kernel - Re: Current git kernel reboots early durning boot

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Date:	Fri, 13 Sep 2013 14:53:33 +0200
From:	Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Current git kernel reboots early durning boot

On 2013.09.09 at 13:18 +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> I've hit an odd issue on the current git tree. When I build a kernel
> with my attached config and a very simple local patch (also attached), I
> get a resulting kernel that just reboots my machine very early during
> boot. When I try to boot the kernel under qemu, qemu just spins forever
> without printing anything to the console. This happens when I build with
> gcc-4.8.1 and gold (linker). When I drop the local kernel patch or
> switch to the bfd linker, the kernel boots normally...
> 
> Any ideas what might be going on?

It turned out that I accidentally used a gold linker, that got
miscompiled by gcc-4.9.0...

-- 
Markus
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