[PATCH] powerpc: fix compile errors in prom_init_check for gcc 4.5

Stephen Rothwell sfr at canb.auug.org.au
Thu Jul 1 09:05:46 EST 2010


On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 00:50:36 +0200 Segher Boessenkool <segher at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> >> You probably also need something similar to http://git.infradead.org/
> >> users/segher/linux.git/commitdiff/
> >> 98194f54cc8e19ecd752bc10e2d19ef94074f502
> >> (note: only build-tested, not run-tested).
> >
> > See http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/57379/ submitted yesterday.
> 
> Yeah saw that right after I hit "send" :-)  Either it's way more
> complete than what I did, or way more complex because we still
> don't link with libgcc :-P

Actually, the 64bit versions of the routines are supplied by the linker,
so the vmlinux links fine.  But for modules, the final link is actually
done by the kernel module loader, thus we need to provide those routines
in this case.  linking against libgcc would not have helped.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr at canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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