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Date:      Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:36:37 -0700
From:      Randall Stewart <rrs@lakerest.net>
To:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [HEADS UP] recent ld is needed to build kernel
Message-ID:  <A826556F-889A-4692-A056-18B47A6538B6@lakerest.net>
In-Reply-To: <4C96F8C5.7020102@freebsd.org>
References:  <4C96F8C5.7020102@freebsd.org>

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For all of you that are wondering what this means ;-)


If you don't do this you will see a crash early in boot
if witness/invariants is enabled...

At least I did..

Basically it will be a mtx_init() complaining about an unaligned
mtx... (netisr_mtx or some such).. see my previous queries from  
Sunday ;-)

R

On Sep 19, 2010, at 11:01 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote:

>
> Sorry, I should have sent out this earlier.
>
> Please note an entry in UPDATING from 20100915:
>
> A workaround for a fixed ld bug has been removed in kernel code,
> so make sure that your system ld is built from sources after
> revision 210245 (r211583 if building head kernel on stable/8,
> r211584 for stable/7).  A symptom of incorrect ld version is
> different addresses for set_pcpu section and __start_set_pcpu
> symbol in kernel and/or modules.
>
> Apologies for any problems, because of the late notice.
> -- 
> Andriy Gapon
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