Re: Lots of unexpected non-allocatable section warnings

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

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.

In other words - what happens if you back out your change
and apply the appended patch.

        Sam