From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765188AbYBTNBd (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:01:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1765017AbYBTNBO (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:01:14 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:44443 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1765016AbYBTNBM (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:01:12 -0500 Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <20080218200302.GA6741@cvg> References: <20080218200302.GA6741@cvg> To: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Sam Ravnborg , LKML Subject: Re: [QUESTION] FRV: linking error? X-Mailer: MH-E 8.0.3+cvs; nmh 1.2-20070115cvs; GNU Emacs 23.0.50 Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:01:05 +0000 Message-ID: <19148.1203512465@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > being see over vmlinux.lds for FRV architecture I found the string: > > . = ALIGN(4096); > .data.page_aligned : { *(.data.idt) } > > though the PAGE_SIZE is 16K. Can't figure out why is that... > Do you have a few spare minutes to explain, please? Ummm... Good question. Probably a legacy thing. I think the .data.idt section is also an x86-only thing and should be dispensed with for FRV. Leastways, the section has nothing in it according to the link map. David