On Sat, 20 Jul 2019, Mike Lothian wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jul 2019 at 08:57, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've done a bit more digging, I had a second machine that was building > Linus's tree just fine with ld.gold > > I tried forcing ld.bfd on the problem machine and got this: > > ld.bfd: arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.o: warning: relocation in > read-only section `.head.text' > ld.bfd: warning: creating a DT_TEXTREL in object > > I had a look at the differences in the kernel configs and noticed this: > > CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE=y > CONFIG_X86_NEED_RELOCS=y > CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN=0x1000000 > CONFIG_DYNAMIC_MEMORY_LAYOUT=y > CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY=y > CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY_PHYSICAL_PADDING=0x0 > > Unsetting CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE=y gets things working for me with ld.gold again Can you please provide the full config? I have the above set here and it builds just fine. > In light of this - can we drop this patch? No. I'm not going to deal with unsupported tools. Thanks, tglx
