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From: Bob Tracy <rct@gherkin.frus.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] 4.9.0 build error on Alpha
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 00:43:37 -0600
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To: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>, Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>, linux-alpha <linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org>, Debian Alpha Mailing List <debian-alpha@lists.debian.org>, Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>

On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 10:07:06PM +0100, Helge Deller wrote:
> (...)
> Another possibility could be to put all the lib functions into 
> a "alphalib" section into the final vmlinux.
> For that add at the top of each of the .S files in lib/ 
> 	.section .alphalib,"ax"
> and apply the attached patch for arch/alpha/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> Patch and suggestion is completely untested.

Worth a try.  I'll get going on this and report back with the results in
a few hours.

--Bob