2.4.15 and GNU 3.0.2

2.4.15 and GNU 3.0.2

[Sinisa Milivojevic]

Hi!

I think that documentation should stress more strongly that GNU 3.0.*
series of compilers can not be used for building of the production
kernels.

I have got kernel panic in init ....

This is not a complaint, just an information.


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Re: 2.4.15 and GNU 3.0.2

[Mr. Shannon Aldinger]

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On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Sinisa Milivojevic wrote:

>
> Hi!
>
> I think that documentation should stress more strongly that GNU 3.0.*
> series of compilers can not be used for building of the production
> kernels.
>
> I have got kernel panic in init ....
>
> This is not a complaint, just an information.
>
I've been using 2.4.15+Al Viro's iput() patch+freeswan 1.92 compiled with
gcc 3.0.2, no panics or unexpected behavior. 2.4.14 was up for about 2
weeks also compile with 3.0.2 no panics or crashes.


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Re: 2.4.15 and GNU 3.0.2

[David Ford]

That really depends on what sort of system you are running it on.

Out of five computers I build kernels for at home here, one of them has 
an AMD K6II processor in it and that is the only one that I need to use 
gcc 2.95.3 with.  The rest I use 3.0.x and they are quite stable.  I 
just did a round of updates to 2.5.1p, but their prior uptimes were 
between 30 and 80 days.

I'm not saying 3.0.2 is perfect, for sure it isn't.  I'm saying that in 
some situations it can certainly be used.

Every compiler has issues, for some projects I have to use 3.0.2, some I 
have to use 2.95.3.  You keep notes on what works best and go with it.

David

Sinisa Milivojevic wrote:

>Hi!
>
>I think that documentation should stress more strongly that GNU 3.0.*
>series of compilers can not be used for building of the production
>kernels.
>
>I have got kernel panic in init ....
>
>This is not a complaint, just an information.
>
>

Re: 2.4.15 and GNU 3.0.2

[Sinisa Milivojevic]

David Ford writes:
> That really depends on what sort of system you are running it on.
> 
> Out of five computers I build kernels for at home here, one of them has 
> an AMD K6II processor in it and that is the only one that I need to use 
> gcc 2.95.3 with.  The rest I use 3.0.x and they are quite stable.  I 
> just did a round of updates to 2.5.1p, but their prior uptimes were 
> between 30 and 80 days.
> 
> I'm not saying 3.0.2 is perfect, for sure it isn't.  I'm saying that in 
> some situations it can certainly be used.
> 
> Every compiler has issues, for some projects I have to use 3.0.2, some I 
> have to use 2.95.3.  You keep notes on what works best and go with it.
> 
> David
> 

I have PIII. 

But I also have Ethernet, which seems to be causing problems in
2.4.15. 

I will try 2.4.16 this weekend.

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Re: 2.4.15 and GNU 3.0.2

[Heinz Diehl]

On Tue Nov 27 2001, Sinisa Milivojevic wrote:

> > Out of five computers I build kernels for at home here, one of them has 
> > an AMD K6II processor in it and that is the only one that I need to use 
> > gcc 2.95.3 with.  The rest I use 3.0.x and they are quite stable.

I have also two machines using AMD's K6

 elfie:~ # cat /proc/cpuinfo
 processor       : 0
 vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
 cpu family      : 5
 model           : 9
 model name      : AMD-K6(tm) 3D+ Processor
 stepping        : 1
 cpu MHz         : 400.914
 cache size      : 256 KB
 fdiv_bug        : no
 hlt_bug         : no
 f00f_bug        : no
 coma_bug        : no
 fpu             : yes
 fpu_exception   : yes
 cpuid level     : 1
 wp              : yes
 flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 pge mmx syscall 3dnow k6_mtrr
 bogomips        : 799.53

On one of them I compiled the kernel with

 elfie:~ # gcc -v
 Reading specs from /usr/local/gcc3/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-linux-gnu/3.1/specs
 Configured with: /Src/gcc-20011203/configure --prefix=/usr/local/gcc3
 Thread model: single
 gcc version 3.1 20011203 (experimental)

and there were no problems yet (5 days up).

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Re: 2.4.15 and GNU 3.0.2

[Sinisa Milivojevic]

Jens Axboe writes:
> On Mon, Nov 26 2001, Sinisa Milivojevic wrote:
> 
> YMMV, I've used it quite successfully for testing. Again, the tool set
> necessary to build kernels is quite adequately documented in Changes.
> 
> -- 
> Jens Axboe
> 

it could be due to 8139... sources !!

May be you do not have an Ethernet or have not configured kernel for
it ??

I can  try with 2.4.16 and report the exact kernel panic if you want
me to ...

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Re: 2.4.15 and GNU 3.0.2

[Ken Witherow]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Sinisa Milivojevic wrote:

> it could be due to 8139... sources !!
>
> May be you do not have an Ethernet or have not configured kernel for
> it ??
>
> I can  try with 2.4.16 and report the exact kernel panic if you want
> me to ...

Linux version 2.4.16 (ken@krw.2y.net) (gcc version 3.0.2) #3 Mon Nov 26
11:07:33 EST 2001

8139TOO compiled directly into the kernel. No problems to report.

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