From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Reif Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:03:52 +0000 Subject: sparc boot failure Message-Id: <49125E98.8070905@earthlink.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org sparc has failed to boot recently and I bisected it down to this patch: 8dd9453737822469837d48d5da3785ce70fb2118 is first bad commit commit 8dd9453737822469837d48d5da3785ce70fb2118 Author: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Tue Oct 21 21:56:42 2008 -0700 sparc: correct section of current_pc() Latest mainline gives this section mismatch on sparc: The function current_pc() references the variable __init no_sun4u_here. This is often because current_pc lacks a __init annotation or the annotation of no_sun4u_here is wrong. Since current_pc() is used only in early time, it is correct to put it in .init section. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Reverting this patch gets current git booting again.