On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 02:56:33PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Linus, > > Please revert commits edada399 ("powerpc: Use TEXT_TEXT macro in > linker script.") and 9203fc9c ("powerpc: Use __REF macro instead of > old .text.init.refok."), which depends on edada399. > > Commit edada399 breaks the build because it moves the __ftr_alt_* > sections of a file away from the .text section, causing link failures > due to relative conditional branch targets being too far away from the > branch instructions. This happens on pretty much all 64-bit powerpc > configs. > > Clearly these patches were never even build-tested. They were never > acked by the powerpc maintainer (Ben) - because he was on vacation - > and they weren't sent to the deputy maintainer (me) or the relevant > mailing list (linuxppc-dev).
This is partly my fault :-( I acked them as I did not see the issue with conditional branches. Could I ask you to add a comment to the lds file about this. Sam _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev