Subject: Re: [BUILD_FAILURE] linux-next: Tree for May 20 - build failure on powerpc

From: Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 22:44:37 +1000

On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 16:25 +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> The next-20080520 kernel build fails on powerpc, when build the randconfig with
> build error message

>   CC      arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.o
>   CALL    arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init_check.sh
> Error: External symbol 'kernstart_addr' referenced from prom_init.c
> make[1]: *** [prom_init_check] Error 1
> make: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel] Error 2

It's broken in upstream actually, for RELOCATABLE && FLATMEM.

Patch on the way.

cheers

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