On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 00:27 +0000, Richard Mortimer wrote: > > On 09/01/2011 03:46, David Miller wrote: > > From: Ben Hutchings<b...@decadent.org.uk> > > Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 03:00:40 +0000 > > > >> On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 01:05 +0000, Richard Mortimer wrote: > >>> Package: linux-2.6 > >>> Version: 2.6.37-1~experimental.1 > >>> Severity: normal > >>> > >>> Boot of linux-image-2.6.37-trunk-sparc64 fails to find the disks and drops > >>> to the initramfs prompt. When I try to load the sym53c8xx driver it fails > >>> as follows > >>> > >>> (initramfs) modprobe sym53c8xx > >>> [ 122.470284] module scsi_mod: Unknown relocation: 36 > >>> FATAL: Error inserting sym53c8xx > >>> (/lib/modules/2.6.37-trunk-sparc64/kernel/drive > >>> rs/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym53c8xx.ko): Invalid module format > >>> (initramfs) > >> > >> David, do you have any idea how this could happen? > >> > >>> A quick web search finds a similar issue > >>> http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2010/6/16/4583942 > >>> but I have not looked into this any further yet. > >> [...] > >> > >> That was apparently a bug in the build scripts for a separate module. > > > > And like that case bad build flags are causing this problem too. It > > means that "-mcode-model=medlow" is not making it into the module > > build cflags somehow. > > > > This relocation can only occur for sparc64 code models other than > > "medlow". > > I did a test Debian build using my Sun Fire V120 running to double check > the build with the 2.6.2...@experimental.1 sources. This fails in the > same way that the official build fails. > > Looking at the build output it seems to end up building setup_sparc but > I think it should be building setup_sparc64 in the rules. [...] > I will try a package build forcing DEB_HOST_ARCH to sparc64 and see if > that builds the right packages.
No, this is correct behaviour. $DEB_HOST_ARCH is the Debian userland architecture (as used in the package metadata) and may differ from the kernel architecture. All the defined kernel flavours for sparc are 64-bit. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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