[Linux-ia64] kernel update (relative to 2.5.59)

Peter Chubb
2003-01-29T04:27:26Z

>>>>> "David" = David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com> writes:

David> Oh, most importantly: you'll need a new assembler in order to
David> use this patch. There was a nasty bug up until Dec 18 last
David> year which basically made certain place-relative expressions
David> generate bad data. Fortunately, HJ Lu has fixed that bug and I
David> put a read-for-use, static binary of a fixed assembler at:

David> ftp://ftp.hpl.hp.com/pub/linux-ia64/gas-030124.tar.gz

David> As a measure of safety, I added a sanity check which will cause
David> "make" to refuse to build a kernel with a buggy assembler.

The sanity check doesn't work under nue --- I guess that the
compiler/assembler there is too old.

I see:
check-gas-asm.S: Assembler messages:
check-gas-asm.S:1: Error: Expected ':'
check-gas-asm.S:1: Error: Rest of line ignored. First ignored
character is ':'.
check-has-asm.S:2: Error: backw. ref to unknown label "1:", 0 assumed.
objdump: check-gas-asm.o: No such file or directory
check-gas: [: !=: unary operator expected

(And then check-gas script echoes 'good' and things go on... even
though it's not good)

Is there going to be a new nue available soon, with a later toolchain?

Peter C