[parisc-linux] booting problems

[John David Anglin]

> Anyway I think you may be able to fix this bug by changing the subseg_force_new
> call to look something like:
> 
>   subseg_force_new (alias ? alias : ss_name, 0);

Just to through a little "gas" on the discussion, I installed Jeff's
patch and rebuilt.  The patch sucessfully merges $CODE$ into .text.

Here are the kernel headers:

vmlinux:     file format elf32-hppa

Sections:
Idx Name          Size      VMA       LMA       File off  Algn
  0 .text         000759b0  00008000  00008000  00001000  2**4
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
  1 .data         0000f260  0007d9b0  0007d9b0  000769b0  2**3
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
  2 .bss          0001ac6c  0008e000  0008e000  00086000  2**4
                  ALLOC
  3 .PARISC.unwind 00006be0  000a8c6c  000a8c6c  00086000  2**0
                  CONTENTS
  4 .PARISC.symext 00000000  000af84c  000af84c  0008cbe0  2**2
                  CONTENTS

Here are the headers for ipl linked with "-Ttext800 -N":

ipl:     file format elf32-hppa

Sections:
Idx Name          Size      VMA       LMA       File off  Algn
  0 .text         000028a0  00000800  00000800  00000080  2**4
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, CODE
  1 .data         000064a8  00004000  00004000  00003880  2**12
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
  2 .bss          0000115c  00010950  00010950  00009d28  2**3
                  ALLOC
  3 .PARISC.unwind 000000c0  00011aac  00011aac  00009d28  2**0
                  CONTENTS
  4 .PARISC.symext 00000000  00011b6c  00011b6c  00009de8  2**2
                  CONTENTS

I think that we are real close to being able to generate a bootable
kernel with the existing elf32 tools.

Dave
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J. David Anglin                                  dave.anglin@nrc.ca
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