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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:36:30 +0530
From: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc3-mm1- powerpc link failure
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Hi Andrew,

The kernel build fails on powerpc while linking,

  AS      .tmp_kallsyms3.o
  LD      vmlinux.o
ld: TOC section size exceeds 64k
make: *** [vmlinux.o] Error 1

The patch posted at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/13/414, solves this 
failure.

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Thanks & Regards,
Kamalesh Babulal,
Linux Technology Center,
IBM, ISTL.