On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 12:49:02PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > Essentially all platforms that currently set the address to something > > that's not aligned to a 64kB boundry. I'd like binutils to be fixed > > instead, though -- I'll try to track the problem down and cook a patch > > before 2.15. I think the problem may be considered serious enough the > > release may even be deferred for a few days if necessary (since I believe > > it's quite close). > > After a study of the relevant BFD code, I'm now pretty sure it does its > job right -- the .text section which is placed at a fixed offset by the > linker script only imposes an alignment of 4 and the 64kB alignment is > required by the segment the section is placed in. So BFD does the right > job by lowering the segment's VMA so that the .text section is placed at > the requested offset. > > 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. Ralf
