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Paul, Ben, given that Rusty hasn't come back with any opinion on this patch,

do you

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feel comfortable merging it via the ppc tree?  Currently the earlyinit routine
is only compiled in and used for your arch, so I think its fairly benign.

Sorry, I *did* track down the archives for linuxppc-dev, then find your post,
then read your patch.  But I didn't actually reply.

Other than minor issues, there's one significant one: you shouldn't be trying
to change rodata.  It might work on PPC today, but it's poor form at least.

How's this?  Untested on ppc.

I'll try grab a ppc64 system and test this soon.

Other changes:
1) I also changed reloc_start to an array; this is a good idea for any
  linker-defined symbols so the compiler can't make assumptions about size.

Ok, I'll certainly trust your linker skill over mine :)

2) local.h?  How about module.h?

Seems good to me

3) I don't think the extra ". = 0" is necessary.

Its not, I was just trying to be clear about where reloc_start was to be placed.

4) ARCH_USES_RELOC_ENTRIES isn't clear enough for me; I prefer
  ARCH_RELOCATE_KCRCTAB.

Sounds good to me.


I'll test this as soon as I'm able
Thanks!
Neil