H. Peter Anvin wrote:

Sam Ravnborg wrote:

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On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 08:48:50PM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote:

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On 25/07/07, Andrew Morton [off-list ref] wrote:

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ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc1/2.6.23-rc1-mm1/

Andi, this might be interesting for you

make allmodconfig
make
[...]
WARNING: Absolute relocations present
Offset     Info     Type     Sym.Value Sym.Name
c02041b3 00705601   R_386_32 c0308aa8  _sdata

Who did spit out this warning. Can you please provide make V=1
where we see the lines preceeding the warning.

And config please.

config: "make allmodconfig"

System.map would be more interesting, especially what is at 0xc02041b3.

I get here :

WARNING: Absolute relocations present
Offset     Info     Type     Sym.Value Sym.Name
c0202e73 00703601   R_386_32 c03071bc  _sdata

$ grep c03071bc System.map
c03071bc R __tracedata_end
c03071bc A _sdata

	-hpa

Gabriel