Re: Bug#845690: gcc-6: gcc creates unbootable kernel on x86-64
Control: tags -1 + help moreinfo
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The original report talks about a 4.4 problem on , which afaik is superseded in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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