Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750830AbXACPFY (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jan 2007 10:05:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750833AbXACPFY (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jan 2007 10:05:24 -0500 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:54129 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750830AbXACPFY (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jan 2007 10:05:24 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20070103141807.GA8236@in.ibm.com> References: <20070103041645.GA17546@in.ibm.com> <20070103135326.GF20714@stusta.de> <20070103141807.GA8236@in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <3cbf78b7065f2e1822c9e9f4c193a788@kernel.crashing.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Adrian Bunk , "Eric W. Biederman" , Morton Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , Linus Torvalds , Fastboot mailing list , Jean Delvare , linux kernel mailing list From: Segher Boessenkool Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 kernel instant reboot with older binutils fix Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 16:02:27 +0100 To: vgoyal@in.ibm.com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 766 Lines: 22 > Hopefully this patch should solve steve's issue too. Sure looks like it. > o Older binutils required explicit flags to mark a section allocatable > and executable(AX). Newer binutils automatically mark a section AX if > the name starts with .text. More exactly, since 2.15 more section names are automatically recognised as being of a certain type; older binutils already did this for plain .text, for example. Just a nitpick, but perhaps it explains the problem better; I'm fine with the patch as-is. Segher - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/