From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755963Ab1KASzk (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2011 14:55:40 -0400 Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.146]:44776 "EHLO e6.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755941Ab1KASzj (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2011 14:55:39 -0400 Subject: Re: powerpc 476, Little-endian, pte fault From: Peter Bergner To: Santosh Kumar Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Michael Neuling , Ian Munsie , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <12144.1320040276@neuling.org> <20440.1320054588@neuling.org> <1320060214.30202.34.camel@pasglop> <1320155074.2996.190.camel@otta> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:44:53 -0500 Message-ID: <1320173093.2996.244.camel@otta> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit x-cbid: 11110118-1976-0000-0000-0000008EAAD4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 22:44 +0530, Santosh Kumar wrote: > I had a problem configuring the GCC for 476 in little endian mode, What type of problem? I assume the binutils you are building against has 476 support too, correct? You'll need that. > So is this PTE fault related to the compiler options? This could be caused by anything, but I highly doubt this is caused by a compiler option issue. My $$ are that you either have a bug in your kernel patch or there are more places in the kernel source that need patching. Peter