Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/vmlinux.lds: Drop binutils < 2.18 workarounds

[Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>]

Le 04/04/2019 à 16:53, Segher Boessenkool a écrit :
> Hi Joel,
> 
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 12:17:40PM +0000, Joel Stanley wrote:
>> On Fri, 29 Mar 2019 at 09:53, Segher Boessenkool
>> <segher@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 05:14:53PM +1030, Joel Stanley wrote:
>>>> -     NOTES :kernel :notes
>>>> +     NOTES
>>>
>>> I think this still need to be
>>>
>>>          NOTES :kernel
>>>
>>> or the linker will complain.  Did you try to build ppc64_defconfig?
>>
>> Yeah, I did build (and boot, in qemu) the ppc64_defconfig. I tried
>> leaving in/removing the :kernel annotation in a bunch of places and as
>> long as I had it in the first spot, the kernel linked.
>>
>> Shall I respin with this added?
> 
> Yes please, if only so we are testing the exact same thing :-)
> 
> There may be a binutils version difference here.
> 
>>> (And I do not know if there are any tools that expect the notes in a phdr,
>>> or even specifically the second phdr).
> 
> ^^^ This question remains?

A few days ago while I was investigating 
https://github.com/linuxppc/issues/issues/208 , I had the feeling that 
QEMU expects some sort of NOTES section.

I didn't investigate further though.

Christophe