Re: Relocation overflow with modules on Alpha

[Thorsten Kranzkowski]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 02:21:37AM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> 
> I compiled Linux 2.6.0 for Alpha, and it mostly works, except the
> somewhat large modules.  They fail to load with the message
> "Relocation overflow vs section 17", or some other section number.
> I've seen this with scsi-mod, nfsd, snd-page-alloc and possibly some
> more.  Compiling them statically works.  What's going on?

I saw a similar thing, but I'm compiling everything statically:

: relocation truncated to fit: BRADDR .init.text
init/built-in.o(.text+0xf10): In function `inflate_codes':


Disabling a not so important subsystem (sound) helped for the time being.

It seems my kernel crossed the 4 MB barrier in consumed RAM and possibly
some relocation type(s) can't cope with that. Time to use -fpic or 
some such?

Thorsten

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