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Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:26:52 -0500
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
From: Steve Heflin <sheflin@newagemicro.com>
Subject: Re: MODPOST section mismatches
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FLAT_MEM is one of the configuration options:
       CONFIG_ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE=y

At 03:52 PM 2/22/2008, Josh Boyer wrote:
>On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:12:47 -0500
>Steve Heflin <sheflin@newagemicro.com> wrote:
>
> > To reproduce the problem and see the details on section mismatches:
> >
> >      make ARCH=powerpc sequoia_defconfig
> >
> >      make ARCH=powerpc CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y
>
>All of those warnings are in drivers or common code.  And yes, they
>should eventually all be fixed.
>
> > >After modifying the make launch to include the recommended option
> > >shown above, I see that the section mismatch warning is due to data
> > >structures containing the address of initialization modules which
> > >have the __init attribute. Since the memory model is FLAT, is 
> this a problem?
>
>What do you mean by "the memory model is FLAT"?
>
>josh
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