From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753680Ab1ASIMu (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2011 03:12:50 -0500 Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:59808 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753638Ab1ASIMt (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2011 03:12:49 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.60,343,1291622400"; d="scan'208";a="594367776" Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 doesn't boot From: Shaohua Li To: Markus Trippelsdorf , "Lu, Hongjiu" Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Ingo Molnar , Sam Ravnborg In-Reply-To: <20110119074902.GA1670@gentoo.trippels.de> References: <20110119073905.GA1652@gentoo.trippels.de> <20110119074902.GA1670@gentoo.trippels.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:12:46 +0800 Message-ID: <1295424766.1949.879.camel@sli10-conroe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 15:49 +0800, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > On 2011.01.19 at 08:39 +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > > On 2011.01.18 at 15:54 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > And as usual, report any regressions to the lists and the appropriate > > > authorities. > > > > Unfortunately 2.6.38-rc1 doesn't even boot on my machine (amd64). > > This is caused by 86b1e8dd83cbb0f: > > x86: Make relocatable kernel work with new binutils > > > > Reverting the commit solves the problem. > > I'm running the latest binutils: > GNU ld (Linux/GNU Binutils) 2.21.51.0.5.20110104 Hmm, reproduce it here with binutils-2.21.51.0.6-20110118 but not with GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.20.51-system.20100908 I got this in system.map: ffffffff03514880 D jiffies_64, which looks wrong. looks binutils changed something again. Have no idea, CC Lu Hongjiu. Thanks, Shaohua