linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.24-rc3-mm1- powerpc link failure

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Date:	Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:52:56 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc3-mm1- powerpc link failure

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:36:30 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> The kernel build fails on powerpc while linking,

Only for allyesconfig (or maybe some other config that builds a lot of
stuff in.

>   AS      .tmp_kallsyms3.o
>   LD      vmlinux.o
> ld: TOC section size exceeds 64k
> make: *** [vmlinux.o] Error 1
> 
> The patch posted at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/13/414, solves this 
> failure.

However, that patch needs more testing especially to figure out what
performance effects it has.  i.e. not for merging, yet.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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