Re: [Xenomai-core] buildbot: how to setup for ppc with 2.6.19 kernel?

[Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@domain.hid>]

Philippe Gerum wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 15:55 +0100, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
>> Niklaus Giger wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Compiling ppc fails for me with 2.6.19 kernels. 
>>> ( I compile on a Pegasos PPC 601 Debian Linux).
>>>
>>> If I use ARCH=ppc then I get the following error:
>>>>   CHK     include/linux/version.h
>>>>   CHK     include/linux/utsrelease.h
>>>>   CHK     include/linux/compile.h
>>>> gcc: include/asm/byteorder.h: No such file or directory
>> Hmm, strange.
>>
>>>> gcc: no input files
>>>>   CC      arch/ppc/xenomai/hal.o
>>>> arch/ppc/xenomai/hal.c: In function 'rthal_arch_init':
>>>> arch/ppc/xenomai/hal.c:353: error: invalid type argument of '->'
>>>> make[1]: *** [arch/ppc/xenomai/hal.o] Fehler 1
>> That looks like an altivec problem. Does the attached patch for Xenomai 
>> help?
>>
> 
> It does, but we also need to remain compatible with older kernels
> (namely 2.6.14 since the ppc64 port is still based on it), so I fixed
> this by using cpu_has_feature() instead.

My patch was just a quick hack to see if it fixes the problem and not 
intended for inclusion. Thanks for the proper fix.

Wolfgang.