Re: [PATCH] powerpc/boot: Use address-of operator on section symbols

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Thu Jun 25 2020 - 12:32:26 EST


On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 6:19 PM Geoff Levand <geoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Nathan,
>
> On 6/23/20 8:59 PM, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > These are not true arrays, they are linker defined symbols, which are
> > just addresses. Using the address of operator silences the warning
> > and does not change the resulting assembly with either clang/ld.lld
> > or gcc/ld (tested with diff + objdump -Dr).
>
> Thanks for your patch. I tested this patch applied to v5.8-rc2 on a
> PS3 and it seems OK.

PS3? Folks still have ones that can boot Linux? Those ****ers took
my Yellow Dog Linux away from me; I enjoyed depositing that settlement
check! Hopefully by now, folks have figured out how to roll back the
system firmware?

>
> Tested-by: Geoff Levand <geoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers