Yellow-dog-linux troubles

Yellow-dog-linux troubles

[Ken Offer]

Hello all-yall-linuxppc-hackers,

Has anybody out there had any luck getting a Synergy-micro VSS4 board
(i.e. a cool one-board computer with 4 PPC-G3s on it) to compile the
latest 2.4.4 and 2.4.2 yellow-dog kernels cleanly?  I'm using gcc
2.95.2.  Any gcc above 2.6.3 should compile the kernel cleanly, right?

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Kenneth Ray Offer, II
Sr. Systems Analyst
Applied Research Laboratories/SDD
University of Texas at Austin
Office (512) 835-3859   FAX (512) 835-3259

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Re: Yellow-dog-linux troubles

[Gabriel Paubert]

On Mon, 7 May 2001, Ken Offer wrote:

>
> Hello all-yall-linuxppc-hackers,
>
> Has anybody out there had any luck getting a Synergy-micro VSS4 board
> (i.e. a cool one-board computer with 4 PPC-G3s on it) to compile the
> latest 2.4.4 and 2.4.2 yellow-dog kernels cleanly?  I'm using gcc
> 2.95.2.  Any gcc above 2.6.3 should compile the kernel cleanly, right?

No, for PPC 2.95.2 is a strict minimum and I'd rather recommend
Franz Sirl's latest gcc rpms on linuxppc.org. It should be gcc-2.95.3 or
perhaps even 2.95.4 now. Even plain 2.95.2 has fairly easy to trigger bugs
IIRC, older compiler are _much_ worse.

If you like to live dnagerously, you can also download the latest snapshot
from gcc.gnu.org or mirros, but it's sometimes broken enough to prevent
succesful kernel compiles.

Even on Intel 2.7.2 no more works, it had serious bugs in things
apparently as simple as named structure field initialization.

	Regards,
	Gabriel.


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Re: Yellow-dog-linux troubles

[Val Henson]

Howdy,

You should be using the linuxppc_2_4 BK tree (not the ftp.kernel.org tree)

http://www.fsmlabs.com/linuxppcbk.html

Also, if you're using the VSS4, the serial driver doesn't currently
work on it.  I haven't had time to fix it cleanly, so the hack is to
comment out these lines in drivers/char/serial.c:

	if (state->flags & ASYNC_BOOT_AUTOCONF)
		autoconfig(state);

Contact me directly for a kernel snapshot.

-VAL

On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 04:29:59PM -0500, Ken Offer wrote:
>
> Hello all-yall-linuxppc-hackers,
>
> Has anybody out there had any luck getting a Synergy-micro VSS4 board
> (i.e. a cool one-board computer with 4 PPC-G3s on it) to compile the
> latest 2.4.4 and 2.4.2 yellow-dog kernels cleanly?  I'm using gcc
> 2.95.2.  Any gcc above 2.6.3 should compile the kernel cleanly, right?
>
> --
> ______________________________________________________________
> Kenneth Ray Offer, II
> Sr. Systems Analyst
> Applied Research Laboratories/SDD
> University of Texas at Austin
> Office (512) 835-3859   FAX (512) 835-3259
>
> Any opinions expressed above are mine and not necessarily
> those of my employer.
>

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