Re: 2.6.11-rc3: No vmlinux on ppc

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 04:28:56PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 the mental interface of
> Elimar Riesebieter told:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I tried to built the above Kernel on my powerbook:
> > 
> > ...
> >   GEN     .version
> >   CHK     include/linux/compile.h
> >   UPD     include/linux/compile.h
> >   CC      init/version.o
> >   LD      init/built-in.o
> >   LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
> > mm/built-in.o(.rodata.cst4+0x0): relocation truncated to fit: R_PPC_ADDR32 empty_zero_page+40000000
> > make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
> > 
> > GNU ld version 2.15
> > gcc (GCC) 3.4.4 20041218 (prerelease) (Debian 3.4.3-7)
> > 
> > Could one of the kernel gurus may have a look at it?
> > Has one compiled the 2.6.11-(rc?|-mm?) series with success on a G4
> > powerbook?
> 
> Same with rc3-mm2. I filed a bug to lkml with no response. rc3-mm2
> seems to be the last before final. So will we get an unusable
> release for ppc?

Notice that fabbione may have a FTBFS bug-fix for 2.6.11-rc3, but it may or
may not be this same one.

  http://people.ubuntulinux.org/~fabbione/powerpc-fix-ftbfs.dpatch

 From looking at it i think it is probably another issue though.

Friendly,

Sven Luther