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- Matthew Wilcox writes:
- > make config, fine. make dep, fine. When I tried to make zImage,
- > the first file I compiled coughed up an error from the assembler.
- > The problem is that I've switched to binutils-2.8.1.0.15 which doesn't
- > understand -msa110. I removed this from the GCC specs file and everything
- > went fine. This is something Russell & Phil need to argue about, I think.
-
- This is a patch that I made to the binutils after the StrongARM came out -
- basically to allow the half-word loading/storing for the EBSA110 board, which
- is absolutely necessary to be able to drive some of the hardware properly!
-
- > So now I have a zImage in /usr/src/linux/arch/arm/boot/. I rename /vmlinuz
- > as /vmlinuz.old and copy zImage to /vmlinuz. Reboot. But I still get the
- > old kernel. Why? [On a peecee, I'd rerun lilo, but... ;-)]
-
- You have to re-run loadmap, because the only sensible way to access the kernel
- given all the different formats that a partition can have is to use some sort
- of sector mappings.
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