unexpected non-allocatable section

Sam Ravnborg sam at ravnborg.org
Mon May 4 06:51:38 EST 2009


On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 04:32:41PM -0400, Sean MacLennan wrote:
> On Sun, 3 May 2009 22:07:01 +0200
> "Sam Ravnborg" <sam at ravnborg.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 09:33:16PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> 
> > > Which exact commands did you use to build the kenrel, and how did
> > > you set (and export?) the CROSS_COMPILE environment variable?
> 
> export CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_4xxFP-
> export ARCH=powerpc
> 
> The toolchain is in my path
> 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > I will push the patch in a few minutes.
> 
> That patch gets rid of the warnings.

Thanks for the quick testing. I will add a "Tested-by: if I rebase the tree.

	Sam



More information about the Linuxppc-dev mailing list