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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
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Subject: Re: Problems building 2.6.26 and 2.6.27-rc1
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 > I'm getting the following error when trying to build either 2.6.26 or
 > 2.6.27-rc1:
 > 
 > arch/x86/kernel/head64.c: In function ‘x86_64_start_kernel’:
 > arch/x86/kernel/head64.c:88: error: size of array ‘type name’ is negative

It looks like you're hitting

	BUILD_BUG_ON(!(MODULES_VADDR > __START_KERNEL));

No idea why you're hitting that though.  What's your .config and compiler?

 - R.