[PATCH] powerpc: fix compile errors in prom_init_check for gcc 4.5
Segher Boessenkool
segher at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Jul 1 12:46:26 EST 2010
>>> 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.
Right, so "more complete" it is :-)
I now checked that patch in detail, and it looks good to me. Thank
you for tackling this!
Segher
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