"m68k: Cleanup linker scripts using new linker script macros." and old binutils (was: Re: [PATCH] m68k: Atari EtherNAT - Nicolas Pitre has a new email address)

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 05:56, Michael Schmitz
<schmitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > > I'll verify that on the new tree, and start bisecting. Sigh.
>> >
>> > Good luck!
>>
>> 7c5fd5619dc89fb52d2c2cf144fc6e4365427b86 is first bad commit
>> commit 7c5fd5619dc89fb52d2c2cf144fc6e4365427b86
>> Author: Tim Abbott <tabbott@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Â Sun Sep 27 13:57:55 2009 -0400
>>
>> Â Â m68k: Cleanup linker scripts using new linker script macros.
>>
>> Â Â Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Â Â Tested-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Â Â Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Â Â Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Â Â Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> :040000 040000 5bdbf7ce5dd4ea2f23669c6a6ec11192865b5bfa
>> d3b7397533b0af6261747ccef3cff9cd40f6baf9 M Â Âarch
>
> Backing out that commit on the top of the tree results in a bootable
> 2.6.33-rc2 for me
>
> The order of symbols in the system map is different (as you would expect)
> but I don't see what implicit assumption would be violated.

Tim, any clues? Michael is using gcc 3.3.6 and binutils 2.16.
It works fine with my 4.1.2/2.18 vombo.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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