Warning: Section mismatch

["Tiju Jacob" <jacobtiju@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I have configured the kernel to compile for the freescale i.mx27ads
board. I use freescale given compiler. The kernel version is 2.6.22.

# make ARCH=arm
CROSS_COMPILE=/opt/freescale/usr/local/gcc-4.1.2-glibc-2.5-nptl-3/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/arm-none-linux-gnueabi-
uImage

I get the following warning:
....
....
WARNING: arch/arm/mach-mx27/built-in.o(.data+0x44): Section mismatch:
reference to .init.text: (between 'mxc_timer' and 'gpt_clocksrc')
  OBJCOPY arch/arm/boot/Image
  Kernel: arch/arm/boot/Image is ready
  GZIP    arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy.gz
  AS      arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy.o
  LD      arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux
  OBJCOPY arch/arm/boot/zImage
  Kernel: arch/arm/boot/zImage is ready
  UIMAGE  arch/arm/boot/uImage
Image Name:   Linux-2.6.22.6
Created:      Tue Nov 18 12:27:00 2008
Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size:    1647184 Bytes = 1608.58 kB = 1.57 MB
Load Address: 0xA0008000
Entry Point:  0xA0008000
  Image arch/arm/boot/uImage is ready


When I load the image on the target a kernel dump happens as follows.

WARNING: at arch/arm/mach-mx27/time.c:202 mxc_init_time()
[<c003bdb0>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x14) from [<c000dee0>] (mxc_init_time+0x70/0x1b4)
[<c000de70>] (mxc_init_time+0x0/0x1b4) from [<c000ca34>] (time_init+0x1c/0x24)
[<c000ca18>] (time_init+0x0/0x24) from [<c0008b0c>] (start_kernel+0x1a4/0x2ac)
[<c0008968>] (start_kernel+0x0/0x2ac) from [<a0008030>] (0xa0008030)
 r6:c0345cc4 r5:c0365da4 r4:00053175

What could be wrong here and how severe is the implication of this?

Any help is appreciated.

Thankyou.
Tiju

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