Re: 2.6.8-rc2-mm1

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Sun Aug 01 2004 - 18:59:27 EST


On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 11:11:46PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Took a look at this and atm compiling a sparc tool-chain to try it out.
> What about moving the check added by rmk to kallsyms.c?
> This would remove the extra pass on vmlinux which is for no use for
> most people anyway. On the other hand an error could go unpassed
> because we (for now) do not do the kallsyms stuff if not configured in.
> We could make the kallsyms run independent on the configuration, but
> only link in the symbols if required to do so.
> This would also allow us to have architecture specific final-linking
> rules in one place if sparc needs special rules.
> Today kallsyms already knows about 'SDA_BASE*_' only valid for ppc.
> wli - can you post the output of a failing sparc compile?

The only part that fails is the ldchk part (unique to -mm), which is
just happening prematurely. Here's a log.


-- wli

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