[ELDK] Binutils 2.17 an issue for 2.6.26 kernel?

[Steven A. Falco]

Frank Svendsbøe wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
>   
>> In message <1ba63b520807180055m49efb86vdf2ff990581eff0 at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>>     
>>> What is the workaround segher is referring to, and why not just upgrade ELDK
>>> with binutils 2.18?
>>>       
>> binutils is a pretty fundamental package  -  nearly  everything  else
>> depends  on  it.  Updating  binutils includes (at least) a rebuild of
>> *all* cross tools and of *all* target libraries  and  binaries  -  in
>> other  words:  it's  a  complete  new  release  with all the required
>> testing efforts.
>>
>>     
>
> Yes I know. It's *the* building stone.
>
>   
>> Such an update will be done eventually, but  then  probably  combined
>> with  switching to gcc 4.3.x, and maybe other updates. But as long as
>> there is little community activity and we (DENX) are the only ones to
>> actively drive such a development, you better  don't  ask  me  for  a
>> release date yet.
>>
>>     
>
> I won't ask you for a date, and I'm thankful for all the work DENX has put
> into ELDK and Das U-Boot. But, I'll try to replace 2.17 in ELDK and see how
> it goes for my target (and hopefully provide you with some useful information).
>
> Btw, have you tried crosstool-ng? It seems to be a lot more updated than Dan
> Kegels old crosstool script.
>
> - Frank
>
>   
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Wolfgang Denk
>>
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According to
http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2008-July/060350.html :

    /binutils < 2.18 has a bug that makes it misbehave when taking an
    ELF file with all segments at load address 0 as input.  This
    happens when running "strip" on vmlinux, because of the AT() magic
    in this linker script.  People using GCC >= 4.2 won't run into
    this problem, because the "build-id" support will put some data
    into the "notes" segment (at a non-zero load address)./

Since ELDK-4.2 uses gcc-4.2.2, it looks like we should be fine.

    Steve