linux-kernel - section mismatches gone wild

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Date:	Mon, 9 Aug 2010 14:52:56 -0400
From:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: section mismatches gone wild

Greetings all, from your resident old fart;

I have built 2.6.35.1 about 6 or 7 times, looking for the reason its not 
loading microcode correctly for either my AMD phenom, or my radeon video 
card.  Sometimes a reboot will not startx correctly, hanging with a pure 
white screen and no disk activity.

In watching the rebuilds, there were warnings about section mismatches, 
which I can recall a couple of kernels ago, were only 5.

Unforch, the latest build shows 146.

Its actually running right now, but a capture, with that 
CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCHES=y in the make command line and a bit of 
redirection returns the attached mismatches.txt.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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