Hi Sam, On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 11:49:28AM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:28:16AM +0200, Manuel Lauss wrote: > > Hi Sam, > > > > On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 10:29:39PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > This is due to the SUSE specific section as you expected. > > > We ignore sections named ".comment" but not ".comment" sections > > > with something appended to the name. > > > > > > On a related note, I see tons of the following warnings cross-building for > > MIPS: > > > > WARNING: init/mounts.o (.mdebug.abi32): unexpected non-allocatable section. > > Did you forget to use "ax"/"aw" in a .S file? > > Note that for example <linux/init.h> contains > > section definitions for use in .S files. > > > > WARNING: init/mounts.o (.pdr): unexpected non-allocatable section. > > Did you forget to use "ax"/"aw" in a .S file? > > Note that for example <linux/init.h> contains > > section definitions for use in .S files. > > > > > > I added ".pdr" and ".mdebug*" to the whitelist; the resulting kernels still > > work. (gcc-4.3.3, binutils-2.19.1) > > Hi Manuel - thanks for reporting! > > Is your mips target little or big endian? > If it is a big-endian target (which I expect) then the right fix > is the patch posted by Anders. No, it's little-endian. Cross-compiling on x86_64 to mipsel. > In other words - what happens if you back out your change > and apply the appended patch. no change. (Did you attach the wrong patch? It does indentation fixes and adds a few more entries) Thanks! Manuel Lauss