seen with 20090714 and later this was reported as http://bugs.debian.org/537389, I currently don't have much more information, besides that one of the Debian kernel maintainers did identify
2009-07-11 Alan Modra <amo...@bigpond.net.au> * ldlang.c (insert_os_after): Don't tie assignments to non-alloc output sections. this patch as the one causing the wrongly built kernel. However I don't see this checkin mentioned on the ML. Bastian Blank did check that the problem goes away with a binutils build from trunk and this patch reverted. Some more analysis in http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/21/400 config for the failing kernel: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=35;filename=config;att=1;bug=537389 The trigger is HIBERNATION unset. -- Summary: binutils trunk fails to build bootable kernel image for some configurations Product: binutils Version: 2.20 (HEAD) Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: ld AssignedTo: unassigned at sources dot redhat dot com ReportedBy: doko at debian dot org CC: bug-binutils at gnu dot org http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10429 ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. _______________________________________________ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils