Re: Kernels > 2.6.1-mm3 do not boot.

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 04:39:56PM +0100, Fabio Coatti wrote:
>...
> > If this kernel works, please try -mm4 with disabled SMP support and
> > support for the Athlon (and no other CPUs).
> 
> Doesn't work
> 
> > If you compile with
> >   make V=1
> 
>   gcc -Wp,-MD,fs/.dcache.o.d -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -D__KERNEL__ 
> -Iinclude  -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude  -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs 
> -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -msoft-float 
> -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=pentium4 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default 
> -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -funit-at-a-time     -DKBUILD_BASENAME=dcache 
> -DKBUILD_MODNAME=dcache -c -o fs/.tmp_dcache.o fs/dcache.c

What's your gcc version ("gcc --version")?

Could you back out ("patch -p1 -R < ..." or manually remove the lines) 
the patch below and retry?

TIA
Adrian


diff -puN Makefile~use-funit-at-a-time Makefile
--- 25/Makefile~use-funit-at-a-time	2004-01-14 00:56:05.000000000 -0800
+++ 25-akpm/Makefile	2004-01-14 00:56:05.000000000 -0800
@@ -445,6 +445,10 @@ ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO
 CFLAGS		+= -g
 endif
 
+# Enable unit-at-a-time mode when possible. It shrinks the
+# kernel considerably.
+CFLAGS += $(call check_gcc,-funit-at-a-time,)
+
 # warn about C99 declaration after statement
 CFLAGS += $(call check_gcc,-Wdeclaration-after-statement,)
 

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