I tried to reproduce this with binutils 2.22.90.20120816-2ubuntu1 on current quantal amd64, however I always see the same offset. with 3.5.0-14.17:
$ KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="verbose parallel=4" fakeroot debian/rules binary-generic [...] $ readelf -s debian/build/build-generic/arch/x86/boot/setup.elf|grep video_cards 138: 0000365c 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT 12 video_cards 151: 0000365c 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT 12 video_cards_end
I tried to reproduce this with binutils 2.22.90. 20120816- 2ubuntu1 on current quantal amd64, however I always see the same offset. with 3.5.0-14.17:
$ KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 DEB_BUILD_ OPTIONS= "verbose parallel=4" fakeroot debian/rules binary-generic build/build- generic/ arch/x86/ boot/setup. elf|grep video_cards
[...]
$ readelf -s debian/
138: 0000365c 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT 12 video_cards
151: 0000365c 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT 12 video_cards_end