On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 05:21:33PM +0100, Daniel Laird wrote: > I am trying to respin the patch to add pnx833x support to linux 2.6.27. > I wanted to patch against the new generic kernel KGDB patch. > So I removed gdb-hook etc. > > However when I compile I get > arch/mips/kernel/built-in.o: In function `early_console_write': > early_printk.c:(.init.text+0x1450): undefined reference to `prom_putchar' > early_printk.c:(.init.text+0x1450): relocation truncated to fit: > R_MIPS_26 against `prom_putchar' > early_printk.c:(.init.text+0x145c): undefined reference to `prom_putchar' > early_printk.c:(.init.text+0x145c): relocation truncated to fit: > R_MIPS_26 against `prom_putchar' > make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 > > These functions were defined in my gdb-hook.c. Do I need to move > these somewhere else now? Or just not support EARLY_PRINTK etc. Bad choice - early printk has no relation whatsoever to GDB - though both might end bitbanging the same serial, so early printk code should live in a different file. Ralf