unexpected non-allocatable section

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Sam,

in message <20090503200701.GA32601 at uranus.ravnborg.org> you wrote:
>
> > The thing is, that I cannot reproduce this - I tested it with
> > v2.6.30-rc4, both with ELDK 4.1 (as you) and ELDK 4.2.
> > 
> > Both build the kernel image without any such warnings.
> 
> Anders already found the cause of this - it
> was a missing endian conversion.
> So you need to run this on a little endian target to
> see it. And you need to do a full kernel build
> so we run modpsot on vmlinux.

On a little endian target? I guess you mean LE build host, because the
target (warp board = ppc44x) is definitely big endian?

I ran the tests on a LE machine:

Linux gemini.denx.de 2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Wed Feb 11 23:58:12 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

> I will push the patch in a few minutes.
> 
> For reference it is below:
> 
> 	Sam
> 
> From: Anders Kaseorg <andersk at MIT.EDU>
> Subject: [PATCH] kbuild, modpost: fix unexpected non-allocatable section when cross compiling
> 
> The missing TO_NATIVE(sechdrs[i].sh_flags) was causing many
> unexpected non-allocatable section warnings when cross-compiling
> for an architecture with a different endianness.

I'm confused. Why didn't I see this, then?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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