this was reported as http://bugs.debian.org/537389, I currently don't have
much more information, besides that one of the Debian kernel maintainers did
identify
2009-07-11 Alan Modra<amodra@bigpond.net.au>
* ldlang.c (insert_os_after): Don't tie assignments to non-alloc
output sections.
this patch as the one causing the wrongly built kernel. However I don't see
this checkin mentioned on the ML. Bastian Blank did check that the problem
goes away with a binutils build from trunk and this patch reverted. Some
more analysis in http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/21/400