Re: Kernel build issues after yesterdays merge by Linus
From: Tony Breeds <hidden>
Date: 2014-06-13 05:16:02
Subsystem:
linux for powerpc (32-bit and 64-bit), the rest · Maintainers:
Madhavan Srinivasan, Linus Torvalds
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:09:12PM +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
The TOC symbol export is special and I think we might need to get our script to ignore it.
Try this (untested) patch. If it's good I'll send it to Ben.
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/relocs_check.pl b/arch/powerpc/relocs_check.pl
index 3f46e8b..34e3f25 100755
--- a/arch/powerpc/relocs_check.pl
+++ b/arch/powerpc/relocs_check.pl@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ while (<FD>) { /\bR_PPC_ADDR16_HA\b/ or /\bR_PPC_RELATIVE\b/ or /\bR_PPC_NONE\b/); + # The TOC is "special" so let's ignore it. + next if (/__crc_TOC\./); + # If we see this type of relocation it's an idication that # we /may/ be using an old version of binutils. if (/R_PPC64_UADDR64/) {
<snip>
Shows how much we use make install :) Below is a quick hack to get you going but we should look at either fixing the Ubuntu installkernel to handle extra optional args, or stop passing them from the ppc64 kernel install.sh script.
It seems like passign the zImage files is probably wrong. How about:
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile
index ccc25ed..146d898 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ $(obj)/zImage.initrd: $(addprefix $(obj)/, $(initrd-y)) @rm -f $@; ln $< $@ install: $(CONFIGURE) $(addprefix $(obj)/, $(image-y)) - sh -x $(srctree)/$(src)/install.sh "$(KERNELRELEASE)" vmlinux System.map "$(INSTALL_PATH)" $^ + sh -x $(srctree)/$(src)/install.sh "$(KERNELRELEASE)" vmlinux System.map "$(INSTALL_PATH)" # anything not in $(targets) clean-files += $(image-) $(initrd-) cuImage.* dtbImage.* treeImage.* \
Attachments
- (unnamed) [application/pgp-signature] 819 bytes