I think I have found the problem.  It is related to the patch Ed sent. 

The new LD looks like it automagically turns on the --build-id option.  I have not found out how turn it off. 

When this option is used it generates the   .note.gnu.build-id section.  When this section was discarded in the first ld pass (linuxbios_rom.ram creation) it was causing the segmentation fault crash. 

It looks like this same option is being called again when crt0.o is linked to create linuxbios.  I have added the .note.gnu.build-id section to the .id section in the ldscript.ld file. 

SECTIONS {
        . = (_ROMBASE + ROM_IMAGE_SIZE - 0x10) - (__id_end - __id_start);
        .id (.) : {
                *(.id)
                *(.note.gnu.build-id)
        }


This has gotten me past the second crash but now linuxbios.strip is crashing.

nm -n linuxbios | sort > linuxbios.map
objcopy --gap-fill 0xff -O binary linuxbios linuxbios.strip
objcopy: linuxbios.strip: Bad value
objcopy: linuxbios.strip: Bad value
make[1]: *** [linuxbios.strip] Error 1

So this does not look like a ld problem, but an added feature to ld is causing us grief.  If anyone can figure out how to turn this option off,  that may fix all of this without any patches... :-)



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Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
On 03.12.2007 19:15, Marc Karasek wrote:
  
Unfortunately, it is still broken under Fedora 8.

V3 works, it is just V2 that is having these linking problems. This
patch makes things better, and it at least gives us a more descriptive
error than just a segmentation fault.

This at least gives me a good starting point to debug from .. I think
as soon as we get a stable version that should be the patch..
    

Please file a bug with the binutils guys. If they don't know ld is
broken, they can't fix it.


Regards,
Carl-Daniel