Re: Bug#845690: gcc-6: gcc creates unbootable kernel on x86-64

From	Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Re: Bug#845690: gcc-6: gcc creates unbootable kernel on x86-64
Date	2016-11-27 13:50 +0100
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Control: severity -1 important

On 27.11.2016 08:38, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 binutils 2.27.51.20161124-1
> Control: retitle -1 binutils: creates unbootable kernel on x86-64
> Control: severity -1 grave
> 
> On 2016-11-26 15:13 +0100, Damien Wyart wrote:
> 
>> After running further tests today, I think this is in fact *not*
>> related to gcc but to the kernel itself.
>>
>> I tested all 6.2.1-X versions as well as gcc-5 (5.4.1-3) and all the
>> kernels fail to boot (balck screen just after grub and nothing in the
>> logs).
> 
> Same here, downgrading binutils to 2.27.51.20161118-2 helped.  I'm
> reassigning the bug and bumping the severity, since several people have
> observed the problem.

The original report talks about a 4.4 problem on , which afaik is superseded in
unstable by newever versions released after the GCC 6 release.  This is now made
a binutils RC issue for building a kernel which is not in the archive anymore.
Please could you validate that the issue exists with the linux package in
unstable as well?

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Re: Bug#845690: gcc-6: gcc creates unbootable kernel on x86-64 Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> - 2016-11-27 13:50 +0100
  Re: Bug#845690: gcc-6: gcc creates unbootable kernel on x86-64 Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2016-11-27 17:00 +0100
    Re: Bug#845690: gcc-6: gcc creates unbootable kernel on x86-64 Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> - 2016-11-27 18:40 +0100
      Re: Bug#845690: gcc-6: gcc creates unbootable kernel on x86-64 Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2016-11-27 19:30 +0100
        Re: Bug#845690: gcc-6: gcc creates unbootable kernel on x86-64 Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> - 2016-11-28 15:00 +0100
          Re: Bug#845690: gcc-6: gcc creates unbootable kernel on x86-64 Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2016-11-28 17:40 +0100

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