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From: "P. Christeas" <p_christ@hol.gr>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com>,
	Kishore K <hellokishore@gmail.com>,
	Linux/MIPS Development <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: gcc -3.4.4 and linux-2.4.32
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:30:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200601191230.59347.p_christ@hol.gr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0601191100001.21230@pademelon.sonytel.be>

On Thursday 19 January 2006 12:00 pm, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, P. Christeas wrote:
> > Just to let you know:
> > In a very interesting twist, gcc4.0.2 produces a faulty kernel with the
> > 2.4.31 kernel (as the latter is provided from the hardware's
> > manufacturer). I'm validating gcc and binutils at the moment.
>
> That's why 2 days ago this one went in in 2.4.x:
> | [PATCH] document that gcc 4 is not supported
> |
> | gcc 4 is not supported for compiling kernel 2.4, and I don't see any
> | compelling reason why kernel 2.4 should ever be adapted to gcc 4.

Which comes round to the main reason I'm doing this work (port the platform to 
2.6): if we are not using the *latest* kernel with the *latest* build/user 
tools, then we cannot share our work. Patches to an old kernel/gcc may 
probably get discarded when moving to the next version.

Nevertheless, I think my problem has been the binutils. After switching to 
version 2.16.1, the oops probability (per reset) dropped from 80% to <20% and 
the oops is less random. (that is, there is also one, real, bug)

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-19 10:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-16 12:23 gcc -3.4.4 and linux-2.4.32 Kishore K
2006-01-16 12:23 ` Kishore K
2006-01-16 17:34 ` David Daney
2006-01-17 12:07   ` Kishore K
2006-01-17 12:26   ` P. Christeas
2006-01-18 22:35     ` P. Christeas
2006-01-19 10:00       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-01-19 10:30         ` P. Christeas [this message]
2006-01-19 12:33           ` "useless" pgprot_noncached define in include/asm-mips/pgtable.h Niels Sterrenburg
2006-01-23 15:54             ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-01-17 13:43   ` gcc -3.4.4 and linux-2.4.32 Ralf Baechle
2006-01-17 13:40 ` Ralf Baechle

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