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gold-linked dragonfly kernel unbootable, likely due to segment page size, alignment

John Marino binutils@marino.st
Thu Feb 23 17:59:00 GMT 2012 
On 2/21/2012 2:38 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> The header handling behaviour is hardcoded, yes.  That said, you should
> be able to control the program headers by using an explicit PHDRS
> section in your linker script.  PHDRS are supported by both GNU ld and
> gold.
>

Hi Ian,
Good news!  Adding PHDRS section to the linker script resulted in a 
DragonFly kernel that boots and functions fine, including the kernel 
modules that we had trouble with before in gold 2.21.

I've attached the readelf output of the kernel built with ld and gold.
The main difference is the alignment value for the LOAD segments, but 
both have the first LOAD segment starting at the same address so I guess 
that's the important thing.

Thanks again,
John

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