Re: [RFC] tcmode-default: Set 4.8 as default

[Jack Mitchell <ml@communistcode.co.uk>]

On 12/05/13 23:23, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On 13-05-12 5:49 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
>>
>> On May 12, 2013, at 10:35 AM, Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 05/12/2013 09:29 AM, Khem Raj wrote:
>>>> Hi Saul
>>>>
>>>> There is one serious problem that I ran into was that qemuarm 3.8 
>>>> kernel segfaulted
>>>> is it working for you ?
>>>>
>>> Nope your right there does appear to be a problem with ARM, I 
>>> thought we where have sanity test issues again, I just completed a 
>>> build and verified that I get a Kernel paninc with 3.8 Kernel and 
>>> 4.8 GCC.
>>>
>>> Not ready yet!
>>>
>>> Khem, are you looking into it?  I have CC'ed Bruce for the kernel also.
>>
>> haven't looked into the problem in detail. Its one of those either a 
>> problem in gcc or gcc uncovering a latent bug in kernel.
>
> I'll get myself set up and do a build on Monday, see if anything obvious
> pops up (i.e. start with the latest and see if it works, then bisect
> back). I'm already poking at mips64, so I can do this in parallel.
>
> Bruce
>
>>
>>
>

I know the beaglebone kernel was segfaulting on me until Koen updated to 
3.8.11, I think it included some important backports. Would definitely 
be worth a try, Koen can point to you to commit which fixed it, I seem 
to have lost the link into the IRC nether.

Cheers,

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