Since 2.6.23 kbuild produces a 3GB arch/arm/boot/Image because it includes a
.note.gnu.build-id section at address 0 which is followed by 3GB of 0x00.
The --build-id option is set in the toplevel Makefile.
This patch explicitly puts the notes section after the TEXT section.
Index: linux-2.6.23-rc8/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.23-rc8.orig/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ linux-2.6.23-rc8/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -105,6 +105,8 @@
 		*(.got)			/* Global offset table		*/
 	}
 
+	NOTES
+
 	RODATA
 
 	_etext = .;			/* End of text and rodata section */