From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Erich Focht Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 14:06:29 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] kernel update (relative to 2.5.59) Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org 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