Re: 2.6.23-rc8-mm1 - powerpc memory hotplug link failure

Kamalesh Babulal
2007-09-25T20:00:40Z

Hi Andrew,

The 2.6.23-rc8-mm1 kernel linking fails on the powerpc (P5+) box

CC init/version.o
LD init/built-in.o
LD .tmp_vmlinux1
drivers/built-in.o: In function `memory_block_action':
/root/scrap/linux-2.6.23-rc8/drivers/base/memory.c:188: undefined reference to `.remove_memory'
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

# gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: powerpc64-suse-linux
Configured with: ../configure --enable-threads=posix --prefix=/usr
--with-local-prefix=/usr/local --infodir=/usr/share/info
--mandir=/usr/share/man --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib
--enable-languages=c,c++,objc,fortran,obj-c++,java,ada
--enable-checking=release --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.1.2
--enable-ssp --disable-libssp --disable-libgcj --with-slibdir=/lib
--with-system-zlib --enable-shared --enable-__cxa_atexit
--enable-libstdcxx-allocator=new --program-suffix=-4.1
--enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --without-system-libunwind
--with-cpu=default32 --enable-secureplt --with-long-double-128 --host=powerpc64-suse-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)

# ld -v
GNU ld version 2.17.50.0.5 20060927 (SUSE Linux)

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