On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 12:05:55 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-07-14 at 20:12 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > I wanted to test some new ftrace code on my PASemi electra powerpc box. > > But unfortunately it failed to build. It failed with this: > > > > LD init/built-in.o > > arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.o:arch/powerpc/kernel/exceptions-64s.S:874: > > relocation truncated to fit: R_PPC64_REL14 against `.text'+1c90 > > Makefile:864: recipe for target 'vmlinux' failed > > Weird ... what are your gcc and binutils versions ? Smells like a > toolchain issue to me but I need to dig a bit more. Doesn't hit any > of my test configs here. > I built it from scratch from the mainline source repos. dist-ppc-gcc (GCC) 4.6.0 Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. GNU assembler (GNU Binutils) 2.21 Copyright 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 or later. This program has absolutely no warranty. This assembler was configured for a target of `powerpc64-unknown-linux'. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
