Hi, Current binutils adds .MIPS.abiflags section to the kernel vmlinux. This seems break the boot on some old (buggy) OCTEON bootloaders: ELF file is 64 bit Attempting to allocate memory for ELF segment: addr: 0xffffffff816e67f0 (adjusted to: 0x00000000016e67f0), size 0x18 Allocated memory for ELF segment: addr: 0xffffffff816e67f0, size 0x18 Attempting to allocate memory for ELF segment: addr: 0xffffffff81100000 (adjusted to: 0x0000000001100000), size 0x1b86360 Error allocating memory for elf image! ## ERROR loading File! The workaround is to remove the .MIPS.abiflags with "strip" - I guess that is safe for the kernel... Not sure if there is nothing much else to be done, and already a similar hack needs to be done for the .notes section. I just wanted to post this in case some else faces the same issue. A.
