On Tue, 6 May 2003, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > mips64el-linux-ld -r -o kernel.o sched.o dma.o fork.o exec_domain.o
> > panic.o printk.o module.o exit.o itimer.o info.o time.o softirq.o
> > resource.o sysctl.o acct.o capability.o ptrace.o timer.o user.o signal.o
> > sys.o kmod.o context.o ksyms.o
> > mips64el-linux-ld: BFD 2.13.2.1 assertion fail elflink.h:5117
>
> This is a known but not yet fixed problem that only seems to hit certain
> kernel configurations; I believe it somehow tied to little endianess also.
This patch makes ld work for the kernel regardless of the default
emulation (output format). What do you think?
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+ Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland +
+--------------------------------------------------------------+
+ e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
patch-mips-2.4.21-pre4-20030505-mips64-ld-oformat-0
diff -up --recursive --new-file
linux-mips-2.4.21-pre4-20030505.macro/arch/mips64/Makefile
linux-mips-2.4.21-pre4-20030505/arch/mips64/Makefile
--- linux-mips-2.4.21-pre4-20030505.macro/arch/mips64/Makefile 2003-02-27
03:56:44.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-mips-2.4.21-pre4-20030505/arch/mips64/Makefile 2003-05-08
15:44:25.000000000 +0000
@@ -251,10 +251,20 @@ LINKFLAGS += -T arch/mips64/ld.script.el
#LINKFLAGS += -T arch/mips64/ld.script.elf64
endif
+ifdef CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
+32bit-bfd = elf32-tradlittlemips
+64bit-bfd = elf64-tradlittlemips
+else
+32bit-bfd = elf32-tradbigmips
+64bit-bfd = elf64-tradbigmips
+endif
+
AFLAGS += $(GCCFLAGS)
CFLAGS += $(GCCFLAGS)
+LD += --oformat $(32bit-bfd)
+
LINKFLAGS += -Ttext $(LOADADDR)
@@ -266,12 +276,6 @@ LIBS := arch/mips64/lib/lib.a $(LIBS)
MAKEBOOT = $(MAKE) -C arch/$(ARCH)/boot
-ifdef CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
-64bit-bfd = elf64-tradlittlemips
-else
-64bit-bfd = elf64-tradbigmips
-endif
-
vmlinux: arch/mips64/ld.script.elf32
arch/mips64/ld.script.elf32: arch/mips64/ld.script.elf32.S
$(CPP) -C -P -I$(HPATH) -imacros $(HPATH)/asm-mips64/sn/mapped_kernel.h
-Umips arch/mips64/ld.script.elf32.S > arch/mips64/ld.script.elf32
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