From: Stephen Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 13:28:39 +1100

> An allyesconfig build creates a .text section that is so big that the
> .text.init.refok and .fixup sections are too far away for the relocations
> to be fixed up correctly. This patch fixes that by linking all the
> relevent text sections for each file together.
> 
> Suggested by Paul Mackerras.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S |    3 +--
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> This still leaves us with the problem that the TOC overflows.
> 
> Dave, would something like this help as an alternative to the .fixup
> change you committed recently?

It might, I'll make some tests when I get a chance.

Thanks for pointing this out Stephen.
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