Hi Andrew,

The kernel linking fails on the powerpc, with following error message

  CC      init/version.o
  LD      init/built-in.o
  LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o(.toc+0x1550): undefined reference to `devices_subsys'
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

~ # gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-suse-linux/3.3.3/specs
Configured with: ../configure --enable-threads=posix --prefix=/usr --with-local-prefix=/usr/local --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,objc,java,ada --disable-checking --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-libgcj --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/g++ --with-slibdir=/lib --with-system-zlib --enable-shared --enable-__cxa_atexit --host=powerpc-suse-linux --build=powerpc-suse-linux --target=powerpc-suse-linux --enable-targets=powerpc64-suse-linux --enable-biarch
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)

~ # ld -v
GNU ld version 2.15.90.0.1.1 20040303 (SuSE Linux)

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