On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 08:38:51AM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 09:20:37AM -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > > With '.section .alphalib,"ax"' added to the top of "arch/alpha/lib/*.S" > > (below opening comment block, if present, but prior to any include directives), > > and the modified patch to "arch/alpha/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S", I now get > > multiple relocation errors as follows: > > > > LD init/built-in.o > > arch/alpha/lib/lib.a(strcat.o): In function `strcat': > > (.text+0x60): relocation truncated to fit: BRADDR against symbol `__stxcpy' defined in .text section in arch/alpha/lib/lib.a(stxcpy.o) > > arch/alpha/lib/lib.a(strncat.o): In function `strncat': > > (.text+0x60): relocation truncated to fit: BRADDR against symbol `__stxncpy' defined in .text section in arch/alpha/lib/lib.a(stxncpy.o) > > drivers/built-in.o: In function `radeon_cs_parser_init.part.4': > > drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_cs.o:(.text+0x119bd0): relocation truncated to fit: BRSGP against symbol `__copy_user' defined in .alphalib section in arch/alpha/lib/lib.a(copy_user.o) > > Try changing the #ifdef MODULE above __copy_tofrom_user_nocheck to > #if 1 in uaccess.h. That should fix the copy_user relocation errors. Have accumulated enough patches that I'm running a "from scratch" build rather than trusting all the dependency checking. It will be sometime next year before I report back :-). --Bob -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-alpha" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
