linux-kernel - Re: [QUESTION] FRV: linking error?

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Message-ID: <20080220175145.GA6733@cvg>
Date:	Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:51:45 +0300
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [QUESTION] FRV: linking error?

[Sam Ravnborg - Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 02:14:42PM +0100]
| On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:01:05PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
| > Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com> wrote:
| > 
| > > being see over vmlinux.lds for FRV architecture I found the string:
| > > 
| > > 	. = ALIGN(4096);
| > > 	.data.page_aligned : { *(.data.idt) }
| > > 
| > > though the PAGE_SIZE is 16K. Can't figure out why is that...
| > > Do you have a few spare minutes to explain, please?
| > 
| > Ummm...  Good question.  Probably a legacy thing.  I think the .data.idt
| > section is also an x86-only thing and should be dispensed with for FRV.
| > Leastways, the section has nothing in it according to the link map.
| 
| A quick grep agree with you.
| I see it used only in x86 in traps_32 for the F0 0F bug.
| It exist in several .lds files - including frv.
| 
| 	Sam
| 

Sam, maybe we should just eliminate this section at least for FRV?

		- Cyrill -
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