Hi Bastian, the new version in unstable works after installing here. So your fix seems to not affect stability.
----- Uwe Schindler H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen http://www.thetaphi.de eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Bastian Blank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 10:12 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org > Subject: Alpha Linux kernel fails with inconsistent kallsyms data > > Hi folks > > The build of the Alpha Linux kernel currently fails[1] with inconsistent > kallsyms data. As I never saw that before, I thought about hardware > problems. But in fact it is a bug in the Linux kernel. > > The end of the rodata section is marked with the "__end_rodata" symbol. > This symbol have different aligning constraints than the inittext parts > and therefor the start marked "_sinittext". Because of that the > __end_rodata symbol shifts between < _sinittext and == _sinittext. The > later variant is seen as a code symbol and recorded in the kallsyms > data. > > On fix would be to move the exception table a little bit and get some > space between that two areas. > > Bastian > > [1]: http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=linux- > 2.6&arch=alpha&ver=2.6.25-5&stamp=1213919009&file=log&as=raw > > -- > The face of war has never changed. Surely it is more logical to heal > than to kill. > -- Surak of Vulcan, "The Savage Curtain", stardate 5906.5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]