[BUILD_FAILURE] linux-next: Tree for May 20 - build failure on powerpc

Hi Stephen,

The next-20080520 kernel build fails on powerpc, when build the randconfig with
build error message


  CC      arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.o
  CALL    arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init_check.sh
Error: External symbol 'kernstart_addr' referenced from prom_init.c
make[1]: *** [prom_init_check] Error 1
make: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel] Error 2



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

On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 16:25 +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote:

Hi Stephen,

The next-20080520 kernel build fails on powerpc, when build the randconfig with
build error message

  CC      arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.o
  CALL    arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init_check.sh
Error: External symbol 'kernstart_addr' referenced from prom_init.c
make[1]: *** [prom_init_check] Error 1
make: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel] Error 2

It's broken in upstream actually, for RELOCATABLE && FLATMEM.

Patch on the way.

cheers

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OzLabs, IBM Australia Development Lab

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