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From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:47:01 -0500
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Non-static global variables cause relocation to
 fail
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Wolfgang Denk wrote:

> You  don't  seriously  expect  any  real  help  given  such  a  vague
> description?  It  would be somewhat helpful if you said exactly which
> changes cause the code to work or fail...

I did say that.  Simply making the global variable not static caused it to fail.

Works:

static struct __attribute__ ((__packed__)) eeprom {

Doesn't work:

struct __attribute__ ((__packed__)) eeprom {

Everything else is the same.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale