Re: [PATCH 1/3] Remove '-mno-explicit-relocs' option when CONFIG_BUILD_ELF64

[Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> Yes, I rebased them on top of linux-mips HEAD as of Thursday.
> 

Ok, I rebased them too, and compare them to your diff and got almost
the same result except that you seem to not use the last patch 3/3
version. But it shouldn't hurt.

> My kernel crashed, so I gave your patchset a try, and it got a lot
> further and crashed somewhere different.
> 

It just means that before applying the patchset your kernel was
wrongly configured: you probably set "CONFIG_BUILD_ELF64=y" whereas
your kernel load address is in CKSEG0, is that correct ?

If so, your current issue may be related to a completely different
area and maybe a git-bisect session could help but don't forget to set
"CONFIG_BUILD_ELF64=n" before.

Oh, maybe before doing the git-bisect session, there's one thing you
could try: when building the kernel with the patchset applied do:

                $ make KBUILD_SYM32=no

It's equivalent to "CONFIG_BUILD_ELF64=y" _but_ the kernel will use
the correct definitions for kernel address translations.

In any cases, your dmesg could help.

                Franck