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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:20:44 +1000
To: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.25: pmac_newworld undefined
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From: tony@bakeyournoodle.com (Tony Breeds)
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On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 08:03:46PM +0200, Christian Kujau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the build failure reported[0] by Kamalesh back in 01/2008 is still 
> present in today's 2.6.25-git with CONFIG_NVRAM=m (instead of =y):
> 
>   Building modules, stage 2.
>   MODPOST 72 modules
> ERROR: "pmac_newworld" [arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/nvram.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: "__alloc_bootmem" [arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/nvram.ko] 
> undefined!
> make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1

Yeah that isn't really surprising.  Essentially
arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/nvram.c must be builtin (not modular)
but CONFIG_NVRAM is tristate, and your .config has CONFIG_NVRAM=m.

We can probably "fix" this by adding another config config symbol and
"selecting" that from CONFIG_NVRAM.  Then using this new symbol in
arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/*

so I think with we need is:
config NVRAM
  bool "..." if PPC32
  tristate "..." if !PPC32
  ...
  ...

Sam is there some way to achieve that or should we just create an
secondary symbol?

Yours Tony

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