On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 11:19:06PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote: > these two lines in the linker script arch/mips/ld.script.in: > > . = ALIGN(8192); > .data.init_task : { *(.data.init_task) } Yep, I was just looking at it. So the problem is in init_task.c. The following line should be changed from: __attribute__((__section__(".text"))) = to: __attribute__((__section__(".data.init_task"))) = Right? Regards, Rani