rmk added to -mm a check to the build system which causes it to fail if vmlinux has undefined symbols. On sparc64: ldchk: .tmp_vmlinux1: final image has undefined symbols: current_thread_info_reg silo_args Here's a fix for silo_args. I don't know what to do about current_thread_info_reg. Cc: Russell King Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- 25-sparc64-akpm/arch/sparc64/kernel/head.S | 1 - 1 files changed, 1 deletion(-) diff -puN arch/sparc64/kernel/head.S~sparc64-remove-silo-args arch/sparc64/kernel/head.S --- 25-sparc64/arch/sparc64/kernel/head.S~sparc64-remove-silo-args 2004-07-04 23:32:11.492203184 -0700 +++ 25-sparc64-akpm/arch/sparc64/kernel/head.S 2004-07-04 23:32:18.574126568 -0700 @@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ bootup_user_stack: */ .global root_flags, ram_flags, root_dev .global sparc_ramdisk_image, sparc_ramdisk_size - .globl silo_args .ascii "HdrS" .word LINUX_VERSION_CODE _