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

Luck, Tony
2003-01-29T17:10:07Z

I had the same problem with mconf when I built with 2.96 (it just
printed the name of the Kconfig file and exited with status 1,
strace didn't show any unexpected system call failures).

I got a successful build using gcc 3.1 (well after I did

s/.owner = THIS_MODULE;/.owner = THIS_MODULE,/

in a couple of the drivers/char/agp/*.c)

I'm now up and running on a BigSur.

-Tony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erich Focht [mailto:efocht@ess.nec.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 6:06 AM
> To: davidm@hpl.hp.com
> Cc: linux-ia64@linuxia64.org
> Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] kernel update (relative to 2.5.59)
>
>
> On Saturday 25 January 2003 06:02, David Mosberger wrote:
> > Oh, most importantly: you'll need a new assembler in order
> to use this
> > patch. There was a nasty bug up until Dec 18 last year which
> > basically made certain place-relative expressions generate bad data.
> > Fortunately, HJ Lu has fixed that bug and I put a
> read-for-use, static
> > binary of a fixed assembler at:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.hpl.hp.com/pub/linux-ia64/gas-030124.tar.gz
> >
> > As a measure of safety, I added a sanity check which will
> cause "make"
> > to refuse to build a kernel with a buggy assembler.
>
> David,
>
> which gcc are you using? If I replace "as" with yours, I can't even
> "make menuconfig" or "make config". Tried with gcc 2.96 (from RedHat
> 7.2) and a self compiled gcc 3.2. The executable (mconf) fails. If I
> compile the kernel with the new "as", it doesn't boot. Am I the only
> one having this problem?
>
> Regards,
> Erich
>
>
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