From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Romain Dolbeau , Subject: Re: Trouble compiling 2.5.30 on old powermac Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 14:45:42 +0200 Message-Id: <20020806124542.24275@192.168.4.1> In-Reply-To: <3D4FBE55.71B00BF7@irisa.fr> References: <3D4FBE55.71B00BF7@irisa.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: > >Hello all, > >first of all, a big thanks to all hackers for the 2.4.x >releases that have been fine for me for a looong time :-) > >But to be able to port the "pm3fb" driver to 2.5, I need >a 2.5.x kernel. None of those I tried compiled. >Michel Dänzer suggested posting my problems here, so here >it is. > >The box is an old 7500 upgraded with a 192Mhz 604e, running >Debian (used to be "woody", now it's "sarge"). binutils come >from Debian "sid" as I need the newer binutils for 2.5. >Additional hardware include an old mac-flashed Matrox >Millenium, and a Formac Proformance III video card (the one >that need pm3fb). > >Source tree is linuxppc-2.5 from source.mvista.com, >through rsync. > >1) at least 3 non-essential drivers cannot compile: > the mac serial port, the mac floppy drive, and the > external SCSI bus (53C94, MESH compiles). I can > provide the errors if they're needed. Yup, I fixed MESH, Cuda, via-pmu, adb, but not macserial nor swim3 nor 53c94 yet, those are on my todo list. As far as macserial is concerned, I need to look into the new serial driver framework made by Russel King and figure out enough of it to port the driver. >2) arch/ppc/kernel/process.c fails with: >##### > gcc -Wp,-MD,./.process.o.d -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linuxppc-2.5/include >-Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno- >strict-aliasing -fno-common -I/usr/src/linuxppc-2.5/arch/ppc -msoft-float >-pipe -ffixed-r2 >-Wno-uninitialized -mmultiple -mstring -nostdinc -iwithprefix include >-DKBUILD_BASENAME=process -c -o process.o process.c >process.c: In function `set_fpexc_mode': >process.c:426: `PR_FP_EXC_PRECISE' undeclared (first use in this function) >process.c:426: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once >process.c:426: for each function it appears in.) >make[2]: *** [process.o] Error 1 >make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linuxppc-2.5/arch/ppc/kernel' >##### That's a new one. Paulus ? Incorrect merge ? Missing include ? Ben. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/