Re: Linux 2.4.17-pre6

[Ken Brownfield <brownfld@irridia.com>]

At the end of a -pre6 bzImage compile I'm getting this:

gcc -E -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.17-pre6/include -D__BIG_KERNEL__ -D__ASSEMBLY__ -traditional -DSVGA_MODE=NORMAL_VGA  setup.S -o bsetup.s
as -o bsetup.o bsetup.s
bsetup.s: Assembler messages:
bsetup.s:1857: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `lcall'
make[1]: *** [bsetup.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.17-pre6/arch/i386/boot'
make: *** [bzImage] Error 2

It looks like the following patch from -pre6 causes compiles to fail for
me:


--- linux-2.4.16/arch/i386/boot/setup.S	Fri Nov  9 19:58:02 2001
+++ linux/arch/i386/boot/setup.S	Fri Dec  7 16:53:24 2001
@@ -539,7 +539,7 @@
 	cmpw	$0, %cs:realmode_swtch
 	jz	rmodeswtch_normal
 
-	lcall	%cs:realmode_swtch
+	lcall	*%cs:realmode_swtch
 
 	jmp	rmodeswtch_end

 
Now granted, I'm a little behind:

% gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/egcs-2.91.66/specs
gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
% ld -v
GNU ld version 2.9.5 (with BFD 2.9.5.0.22)

But do we really want to prevent RH6.2 (for example) from compiling 2.4
at this late stage?  2.95.3 became the minimum _after_ 2.4 was released,
I now notice in Changes.

I'm reverting this patchlet for now, but I'm unsure if this will cause
functionality issues.  Any input would be appreciated.

I could shift to 2.95.3, but with 3.0 "around the corner", I'm hesitant
to spend the additional testing time.  Not a huge deal, but...

Thanks,
-- 
Ken.
brownfld@irridia.com

On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 07:38:23PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
| 
| Hi, 
| 
| Some critical stuff this time: Notably the multithread coredump deadlock
| fix and the copy_user_highpage fix for some architectures...
| 
| pre6:
| 
| - ISDN fixes					(Kai Germaschewski)
| - Eicon driver updates				(Kai Germaschewski)
| - ymfpci update					(Pete Zaitcev)
| - Fix multithread coredump deadlock		(Manfred Spraul)
| - Support /dev/kmem access to vmalloc space	(Marc Boucher)
| - ext3 fixes/enhancements			(Andrew Morton)	
| - Add IT8172G driver to Config.in/Makefile	(Giacomo Catenazzi)
| - Configure.help update				(Eric S. Raymond)
| - Create __devexit_p() function and use that on 
|   drivers which need it to make it possible to 
|   use newer binutils				(Keith Owens) 
| - Make PCMCIA compile without PCI support	(Paul Mackerras)
| - Use copy_user_highpage instead copy_highpage
|   on COW path.					(David S. Miller)
| - Cacheline align some more performance
|   critical spinlocks				(Anton Blanchard)
| - sonypi driver update				(Michael C.B. Ashley/Bob Donnelly)
| - direct render for some SiS cards		(Torsten Duwe/Alan Cox)
| - full handling of the NFSv3 'jukebox' feature  (Trond Myklebust)
| - NFS performance improvements			(Trond Myklebust)
| - More parport fixes				(Tim Waugh)
| - Fix lots of core NCR5380 bugs			(Alan Cox)
| - NCR5380/PAS driver update			(Alan Cox)
| - Add aacraid to the SCSI list			(Alan Cox)
| - fdomain driver fixes				(Alan Cox)
| 
| 
| pre5:
| 
| - 8139too fixes					(Andreas Dilger)
| - sym53c8xx_2 update				(Gerard Roudier)
| - loopback deadlock bugfix			(Jan Kara)
| - Yet another devfs update			(Richard Gooch)	
| - Enable K7 SSE					(John Clemens)
| - Make grab_cache_page return NULL instead 
|   ERR_PTR: callers expect NULL on failure	(Christoph Hellwig)
| - Make ide-{disk-floppy} compile without 
|   PROCFS support				(Robert Love)
| - Another ymfpci update				(Pete Zaitcev)
| - indent NCR5380.{c,h}, g_NCR5380.{c,h}, plus 
|   NCR5380 fix					(Alan Cox)
| - SPARC32/64 update				(David S. Miller)
| - Fix atyfb warnings				(David S. Miller)
| - Make bootmem init code correctly align 
|   bootmem data					(David S. Miller)
| - Networking updates				(David S. Miller)
| - Fix scanning luns > 7 on SCSI-3 devices 	(Michael Clark)
| - Add sparse lun hint for Chaparral G8324 
| 	Fibre-SCSI controller			(Michael Clark)
| - Really apply sg changes			(me)
| - Parport updates				(Tim Waugh)
| - ReiserFS updates				(Vladimir V. Saveliev)
| - Make AGP code scan all kinds of devices:
|   they are not always video ones		(Alan Cox)
| - EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS in floppy.c			(Alan Cox)
| - Pentium IV Hyperthreading support		(Alan Cox)
| 
| pre4:
| 
| - Added missing tcp_diag.c and tcp_diag.h	(me)
| 
| pre3:
| 
| - Enable ppro errata workaround                 (Dave Jones)
| - Update tmpfs documentation                    (Christoph Rohland)
| - Fritz!PCIv2 ISDN card support                 (Kai Germaschewski)
| - Really apply ymfpci changes                   (Pete Zaitcev)
| - USB update                                    (Greg KH)
| - Adds detection of more eepro100 cards         (Troy A. Griffitts)
| - Make ftruncate64() compliant with SuS         (Andrew Morton)
| - ATI64 fb driver update                        (Geert Uytterhoeven)
| - Coda fixes                                    (Jan Harkes)
| - devfs update                                  (Richard Gooch)
| - Fix ad1848 breakage in -pre2                  (Alan Cox)
| - Network updates                               (David S. Miller)
| - Add cramfs locking                            (Christoph Hellwig)
| - Move locking of page_table_lock on expand_stack
|   before accessing any vma field                (Manfred Spraul)
| - Make time monotonous with gettimeofday        (Andi Kleen)
| - Add MODULE_LICENSE(GPL) to ide-tape.c         (Mikael Pettersson)
| - Minor cs46xx ioctl fix                        (Thomas Woller)
| 
| pre2:
| 
| - Remove userland header from bonding driver	(David S. Miller)
| - Create a SLAB for page tables on i386		(Christoph Hellwig)
| - Unregister devices at shaper unload time	(David S. Miller)
| - Remove several unused variables from various
|   places in the kernel				(David S. Miller)
| - Fix slab code to not blindly trust cc_data():
|   it may be not valid on some platforms		(David S. Miller)
| - Fix RTC driver bug				(David S. Miller)
| - SPARC 32/64 update				(David S. Miller)
| - W9966 V4L driver update			(Jakob Jemi)
| - ad1848 driver fixes				(Alan Cox/Daniel T. Cobra)
| - PCMCIA update					(David Hinds)
| - Fix PCMCIA problem with multiple PCI busses 	(Paul Mackerras)
| - Correctly free per-process signal struct	(Dave McCracken)
| - IA64 PAL/signal headers cleanup		(Nathan Myers)
| - ymfpci driver cleanup 			(Pete Zaitcev)
| - Change NLS "licenses" to be "GPL/BSD" instead 
|   only BSD.					(Robert Love)
| - Fix serial module use count			(Russell King)
| - Update sg to 3.1.22				(Douglas Gilbert)
| - ieee1394 update				(Ben Collins)
| - ReiserFS fixes				(Nikita Danilov)
| - Update ACPI documentantion			(Patrick Mochel)
| - Smarter atime update				(Andrew Morton)
| - Correctly mark ext2 sb as dirty and sync it	(Andrew Morton) 
| - IrDA update					(Jean Tourrilhes)
| - Count locked buffers at
|   balance_dirty_state(): Helps interactivity under
|   heavy IO workloads				(Andrew Morton)
| - USB update					(Greg KH)
| - ide-scsi locking fix                          (Christoph Hellwig)
| 
| pre1:
| 
| - Change USB maintainer 			(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
| - Speeling fix for rd.c				(From Ralf Baechle's tree)
| - Updated URL for bigphysmem patch in v4l docs  (Adrian Bunk)
| - Add buggy 440GX to broken pirq blacklist 	(Arjan Van de Ven)
| - Add new entry to Sound blaster ISAPNP list	(Arjan Van de Ven)
| - Remove crap character from Configure.help	(Niels Kristian Bech Jensen)
| - Backout erroneous change to lookup_exec_domain (Christoph Hellwig)
| - Update osst sound driver to 1.65		(Willem Riede)
| - Fix i810 sound driver problems		(Andris Pavenis)
| - Add AF_LLC define in network headers		(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
| - block_size cleanup on some SCSI drivers	(Erik Andersen)
| - Added missing MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") in some   (Andreas Krennmair)
|   modules
| - Add ->show_options() to super_ops and 
|   implement NFS method				(Alexander Viro)
| - Updated i8k driver				(Massimo Dal Zoto)
| - devfs update  				(Richard Gooch)
| 
| 
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