Re: 2.4 kernels + >=binutils-2.14.90.0.8

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Ralf Baechle wrote:

> >  What's important, segment alignment happens under the assumption a binary 
> > will be used in a paged environment.  This is not normally the case with a 
> > MIPS Linux kernel, so I think the right solution is to ask the linker not 
> > to do page aligning using the "-n" option.  Here's a patch that should do 
> > that.
> > 
> >  Ralf, OK to apply this?
> 
> Sure, I don't see any possible drawback from this.

 Some picky firmware may be unhappy about a bit different ELF layout it
yields.  Anyway, this is the right way to go and any problems with bad
firmware may be able to be compensated with updates to our linker scripts.

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