2.6.24-rc2-git3 powerpc link failure

Hi,

The 2.6.24-rc2-git3 kernel build fails during linking 

  KSYM    .tmp_kallsyms1.S
  AS      .tmp_kallsyms1.o
  LD      .tmp_vmlinux2
  KSYM    .tmp_kallsyms2.S
  AS      .tmp_kallsyms2.o
  LD      .tmp_vmlinux3
  KSYM    .tmp_kallsyms3.S
  AS      .tmp_kallsyms3.o
  LD      vmlinux.o
ld: TOC section size exceeds 64k
make: *** [vmlinux.o] Error 1

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

Hi Kamalesh,

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:35:06 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal [off-list ref] wrote:

The 2.6.24-rc2-git3 kernel build fails during linking 

  KSYM    .tmp_kallsyms1.S
  AS      .tmp_kallsyms1.o
  LD      .tmp_vmlinux2
  KSYM    .tmp_kallsyms2.S
  AS      .tmp_kallsyms2.o
  LD      .tmp_vmlinux3
  KSYM    .tmp_kallsyms3.S
  AS      .tmp_kallsyms3.o
  LD      vmlinux.o
ld: TOC section size exceeds 64k
make: *** [vmlinux.o] Error 1

You need the following patch.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au

From: Stephen Rothwell <redacted>
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 11:56:48 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] [POWERPC] Stop the TOC overflowing for large builds.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <redacted>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile
index ca51f0c..9374bc9 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 #
 
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_PPC64),y)
-EXTRA_CFLAGS	+= -mno-minimal-toc
+CFLAGS_prom_init.o	+= -mno-minimal-toc
 endif
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_PPC32),y)
 CFLAGS_prom_init.o      += -fPIC

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