From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hjl.tools@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Trying to make a working kernel with the gold linker
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:59:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F8501B0.1070908@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1SHnDZ-0006Za-Kh@tytso-glaptop.cam.corp.google.com>
On 04/10/2012 07:23 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> So I was trying to see if I could make the kernel build with the gold
> linker (since until it can, I can't install it on my system).
>
> I saw a message from HJ indicating one of the problems was x86_64 gold
> used an incompatible max-page-size setting, so I tried changing it in
> hopes that would make a bootable kernel.
>
> No dice, it didn't work. (At least not with a 2.20 binutils-gold.)
>
> Does anybody know what the other issues with the gold linker? Is the
> 2.22 binutils-gold more likely to work?
It would also be kind of nice if the ELF image generated for the kernel
didn't contain several megabytes of zero that serve no purpose and have
to be decompressed at boot time...
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-11 3:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-11 2:23 Trying to make a working kernel with the gold linker Theodore Ts'o
2012-04-11 3:59 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-04-11 4:51 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2012-04-11 18:05 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-04-11 18:28 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2012-04-11 19:13 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-04-11 19:18 ` H.J. Lu
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