Re: 64 bit build fails

[Carsten Langgaard <carstenl@mips.com>]

Ralf Baechle wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 08:45:35AM +0100, Carsten Langgaard wrote:
>
> > > > mips64-linux-gcc -D__KERNEL__
> > > > -I/home/soc/proj/work/carstenl/sw/linux-2.4.0/include -Wall
> > > > -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing
> > > > -mabi=64 -G 0 -mno-abicalls -fno-pic -Wa,--trap -pipe -mcpu=r8000 -mips4
> > > > -Wa,-32   -c head.S -o head.o
> > > > head.S: Assembler messages:
> > > > head.S:69: Error: Missing ')' assumed
> > >
> > > Looks like an attempt to build a 64-bit Indy kernel.  Various people working
> > > on the Origin support have completly broken the support for anything else in
> > > their battle tank-style approach ...
> >
> > Ok, that explains why a lot of things are broken.
> > So who will be responsible for fixing all the broken pieces ?
>
> This is the question you'd ask a company.  This is Free Software, not some
> company's product ...

What I mean is that we need some discipline, as you mention yourself, it is
unfortunate with this battle tank-style approach.
And I think you do a pretty good job trying to make the rest of the code as clean
as possible.
Of course some time it is a little bit annoying you doesn't just accept my patches
:-)
Just kidding, I think that's the right way to do things.

I was just hoping that the 64bit code was in the same condition as the rest of the
code.

/Carsten


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