From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: sfr@canb.auug.org.au
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] Fix link errors for allyesconfig
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:47:08 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071103.204708.53698457.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071104132839.ea04cf6b.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 13:28:39 +1100
> An allyesconfig build creates a .text section that is so big that the
> .text.init.refok and .fixup sections are too far away for the relocations
> to be fixed up correctly. This patch fixes that by linking all the
> relevent text sections for each file together.
>
> Suggested by Paul Mackerras.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 3 +--
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> This still leaves us with the problem that the TOC overflows.
>
> Dave, would something like this help as an alternative to the .fixup
> change you committed recently?
It might, I'll make some tests when I get a chance.
Thanks for pointing this out Stephen.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-04 3:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-04 2:28 [PATCH] [POWERPC] Fix link errors for allyesconfig Stephen Rothwell
2007-11-04 3:47 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-11-16 6:23 ` David Miller
2007-11-16 8:57 ` David Miller
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