From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/iseries: remove compiler version dependent hack
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 17:46:18 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091006174618.b3b1defc.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091006172847.440e8798.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
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Hi Ben,
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 17:28:47 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
>
> The creation of the flattened device tree depended on the compiler
> putting the constant strings for an object in a section with a
> particular name. This was changed with recent compilers. Do this
> explicitly instead.
>
> Without this patch, iseries kernels may silently not boot when built with
> some compilers.
So this is probably a candidate for 2.6.32 and maybe some of the stable
releases (if anyone cares enough).
--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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