Hello, On Wednesday 13 April 2011 19:38:02 David Daney wrote: > On 04/13/2011 09:07 AM, philby john wrote: > > From: Philby John<pjohn@xxxxxxxxxx> > > ^^^^^^^^ I believe that statement to be not entirely correct. > > Perhaps you should change it to something like: > From: David Daney <ddaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:46:32 +0530 > > Subject: [PATCH] MIPS: Octeon: add option to ignore PT_NOTE section > > > > Some early Octeon bootloaders cannot process PT_NOTE program > > headers as reported in numerous sections of the web, here is > > an example http://www.spinics.net/lists/mips/msg37799.html > > Loading usually fails with such an error ... > > Error allocating memory for elf image! > > > > The work around usually is to strip the .notes section by using > > such a command $mips-gnu-strip -R .notes vmlinux -o fixed-vmlinux > > It is expected that the vmlinux image got after compilation be > > bootable. Add a Kconfig option to ignore the PT_NOTE section. Do we really want this to be in the kernel? In my opinion, this is a fixup which distributions should be aware of, but not necessarily take place here in the kernel Makefiles. -- Florian
