Regarding the ppc_ksyms.c error: a recent message in the linuxppc list, pointing to http://lydia.concorde.gr.jp/luke/ , says to just remove those two lines.
-Lucien. Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > Next, when I tried to compile kernel 2.2.4 in sid environment, > it failed as > > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.4/include -Wall > -Wstrict-prototyp\ > es -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -D__powerpc__ -fsigned-char > -m\ > soft-float -pipe -ffixed-r2 -Wno-uninitialized -mmultiple -mstring > -DEXPORT_\ > SYMTAB -c ppc_ksyms.c > ppc_ksyms.c:335: `down_read_failed' undeclared here (not in a function) > ppc_ksyms.c:335: initializer element is not constant > ppc_ksyms.c:335: (near initialization for `__ksymtab_down_read_failed.value') > ppc_ksyms.c:336: `down_write_failed' undeclared here (not in a function) > ppc_ksyms.c:336: initializer element is not constant > ppc_ksyms.c:336: (near initialization for `__ksymtab_down_write_failed.value') > make[2]: *** [ppc_ksyms.o] Error 1 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.4/arch/ppc/kernel' > make[1]: *** [_dir_arch/ppc/kernel] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.4' >
