Hi Andrew, The kernel build fails on powerpc while linking, AS .tmp_kallsyms3.o LD vmlinux.o ld: TOC section size exceeds 64k make: *** [vmlinux.o] Error 1 The patch posted at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/13/414, solves this failure. -- Thanks & Regards, Kamalesh Babulal, Linux Technology Center, IBM, ISTL.