Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@xxxxxx> writes: > 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. It seems reasonably sensible to /DISCARD/ the .MIPS.abiflags section in the kernel link scripts as I don't think the kernel needs that information for any purpose. I assume .reginfo is discarded as well at some point. Matthew
