Thus spake Jim Crilly: > Currently running Sarge on a PWS600au and some modules (not all) fail to > load with the error "Relocation overflow vs section X" where X varies > per module. This isn't new with test9, I noticed it on earlier kernels > too but I'm not sure where it started. I compiled the kernel with 3.3.2 > and ld 2.14.90.0.6, the newest in sarge. XFS and reiserfs were two > modules that I tried to load but had them fail. > > I did see a few posts on lkml about this in even 2.5 kernels but no > fixes or even acknowledgments of a problem, is there some form of work > around or fix in the works? I'd be more than willing to test workarounds > or patches, the box isn't in production for anything. I had this happen, but chalked it up to a binutils bug (that may or may not be correct)... my "solution" was to compile a monolithic kernel for the time being. -- Nathan Poznick <poznick@conwaycorp.net> Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect. - Charles A. Stoddard
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