H.J.,
On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 12:23:01PM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> I don't know where I should report gnu-efi bug. The ia32 support in
> gnu-efi-3.0b-041222 doesn't work with newer gcc and binutils. The
> problem is in the linker script. The new gcc may put functions in
> .text* sections. The newer linker handles orphaned sections
> differently. I tested this patch on both ia32 and ia64 with different
> versions of gcc and binutils by building elilo 3.6. Elilo 3.6 loads
> and run kernel correctly on ia64. It seems to work find on ia32.
>
As far as I know, I am still the maintainer of this package. But
I need to check with some of our Linux people at HP.
It is unfortunate that this package as such strong dependency
of the GNU compiler and linker. This has caused a lot of troubles
when all the recent updates to gcc. Yet I do not see a way around
this.
Once you and James ettle on the right update I'll put it in
and push a new package.
Thanks for tracking this down.
>
> H.J.
> --- gnu-efi/gnuefi/elf_ia32_efi.lds.ia32 2004-12-22 07:52:28.000000000 -0800
> +++ gnu-efi/gnuefi/elf_ia32_efi.lds 2006-03-17 11:47:21.000000000 -0800
> @@ -9,7 +9,11 @@ SECTIONS
> . = ALIGN(4096);
> .text :
> {
> - *(.text)
> + *(.text*)
> + }
> + .reloc :
> + {
> + *(.reloc)
> }
> . = ALIGN(4096);
> .data :
> @@ -48,12 +52,9 @@ SECTIONS
> . = ALIGN(4096);
> .dynstr : { *(.dynstr) }
> . = ALIGN(4096);
> - .ignored.reloc :
> + /DISCARD/ :
> {
> *(.rel.reloc)
> - }
> - .ignored :
> - {
> *(.eh_frame)
> }
> }
> --- gnu-efi/gnuefi/elf_ia64_efi.lds.ia32 2004-12-22 10:18:10.000000000 -0800
> +++ gnu-efi/gnuefi/elf_ia64_efi.lds 2006-03-17 11:51:51.000000000 -0800
> @@ -59,13 +59,10 @@ SECTIONS
> .dynsym : { *(.dynsym) }
> . = ALIGN(4096);
> .dynstr : { *(.dynstr) }
> - .ignored_reloc :
> + /DISCARD/ :
> {
> *(.rela.plabel)
> *(.rela.reloc)
> - }
> - /DISCARD/ :
> - {
> *(.IA_64.unwind*)
> *(.IA64.unwind*)
> }
--
-Stephane
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