Very old binutils (2.12.90...) seem to have trouble with newlines in assembler macro invocation. They put them into the resulting argument expansion. In this case this lead to a parse error because a .rept expression ended up spread over multiple lines. Change the PMDS() invocation to a single line.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/head.S =================================================================== --- linux.orig/arch/x86_64/kernel/head.S +++ linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/head.S @@ -345,8 +345,7 @@ NEXT_PAGE(level2_kernel_pgt) /* 40MB kernel mapping. The kernel code cannot be bigger than that. When you change this change KERNEL_TEXT_SIZE in page.h too. */ /* (2^48-(2*1024*1024*1024)-((2^39)*511)-((2^30)*510)) = 0 */ - PMDS(0x0000000000000000, __PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE_EXEC|_PAGE_GLOBAL, - KERNEL_TEXT_SIZE/PMD_SIZE) + PMDS(0x0000000000000000, __PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE_EXEC|_PAGE_GLOBAL, KERNEL_TEXT_SIZE/PMD_SIZE) /* Module mapping starts here */ .fill (PTRS_PER_PMD - (KERNEL_TEXT_SIZE/PMD_SIZE)),8,0 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/