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Aaro Koskinen authored
Discard .MIPS.abiflags from vmlinux. It's not needed and will cause issues e.g. with old OCTEON bootloaders that cannot tolerate additional program headers. Before the patch: $ readelf --program-headers octeon-vmlinux Elf file type is EXEC (Executable file) Entry point 0xffffffff815d09d0 There are 3 program headers, starting at offset 64 Program Headers: Type Offset VirtAddr PhysAddr FileSiz MemSiz Flags Align ABIFLAGS 0x00000000005e77f0 0xffffffff816e67f0 0xffffffff816e67f0 0x0000000000000018 0x0000000000000018 R 8 LOAD 0x0000000000001000 0xffffffff81100000 0xffffffff81100000 0x0000000000b57f80 0x0000000001b86360 RWE 1000 NOTE 0x00000000004e02e0 0xffffffff815df2e0 0xffffffff815df2e0 0x0000000000000024 0x0000000000000024 R 4 After the patch: $ readelf --program-headers octeon-vmlinux Elf file type is EXEC (Executable file) Entry point 0xffffffff815d09d0 There are 2 program headers, starting at offset 64 Program Headers: Type Offset VirtAddr PhysAddr FileSiz MemSiz Flags Align LOAD 0x0000000000001000 0xffffffff81100000 0xffffffff81100000 0x0000000000b57f80 0x0000000001b86360 RWE 1000 NOTE 0x00000000004e02e0 0xffffffff815df2e0 0xffffffff815df2e0 0x0000000000000024 0x0000000000000024 R 4 Suggested-by: Matthew Fortune <matthew.fortune@imgtec.com> Suggested-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com> Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/11402/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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