..answering myself here.. as I found that this problem occurs using a bunch of different trees (bk, ben, stock, etc..)
I have fixed this issue (albeit in possibly a completely incorrect and bad way)I'm certainly no programmer, and definately not a kernel hacker.
I was wondering if this is the correct way to handle this:
diff -u -r linux.orig/arch/ppc/kernel/Makefile linux/arch/ppc/kernel/Makefile
--- linux.orig/arch/ppc/kernel/Makefile Tue Aug 28 09:58:33 2001
+++ linux/arch/ppc/kernel/Makefile Fri Nov 2 15:00:46 2001
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
O_TARGET := kernel.o
-export-objs := ppc_ksyms.o prep_setup.o time.o
+export-objs := ppc_ksyms.o prep_setup.o time.o setup.o
obj-y := entry.o traps.o irq.o idle.o time.o misc.o \
process.o signal.o ptrace.o \
diff -u -r linux.orig/arch/ppc/kernel/setup.c linux/arch/ppc/kernel/setup.c
--- linux.orig/arch/ppc/kernel/setup.c Sat Sep 8 15:38:42 2001
+++ linux/arch/ppc/kernel/setup.c Fri Nov 2 15:42:56 2001
@@ -726,3 +726,4 @@
for (i = 0; i < 96; i++)
id->words160_255[i] = __le16_to_cpu(id->words160_255[i]);
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ppc_generic_ide_fix_driveid);
Today, Ethan@stinkfoot.org wrote:
> I thought that I'd mention that on recent PPC kernels the ide modules
> won't load:
> /lib/modules/2.4.14-pre3/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-mod.o: unresolved symbol
> ppc_generic_ide_fix_driveid
use Alan's tree, or the bk tree.
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