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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-10-16 07:18:46 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-10-16 07:18:46 +0200
commita5912f6b3e20c137172460e6d4dd180866c00963 (patch)
treeebe80998af843f31d5042845c542303ea96cecbe /arch/x86/boot
parent012abeea669ea49636cf952d13298bb68654146a (diff)
x86: Document linker script ASSERT() quirk
Older binutils breaks if ASSERT() is used without a sink for the output. For example 2.14.90.0.6 is known to be broken, the link fails with: LD .tmp_vmlinux1 ld:arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds:678: parse error Document this quirk in all three files that use it. See: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kbuild&m=124930110427870&w=2 See[2]: d2ba8b2 ("x86: Fix assert syntax in vmlinux.lds.S") Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> LKML-Reference: <4AD6523D.5030909@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/boot')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/boot/setup.ld3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/setup.ld b/arch/x86/boot/setup.ld
index 0f6ec455a2b1..03c0683636b6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/setup.ld
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/setup.ld
@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ SECTIONS
/DISCARD/ : { *(.note*) }
+ /*
+ * The ASSERT() sink to . is intentional, for binutils 2.14 compatibility:
+ */
. = ASSERT(_end <= 0x8000, "Setup too big!");
. = ASSERT(hdr == 0x1f1, "The setup header has the wrong offset!");
/* Necessary for the very-old-loader check to work... */