Re: Oops linux 2.4.23-pre6 on amd64

[Tony Hoyle <tmh@nodomain.org>]

Andi Kleen wrote:

> That doesn't sound good. Why did you not mention this first, it's unlikely
> that such a compiler produces a working kernel.  When the segfaults
> are not deterministic (go away when you try again) then you likely
> have some hardware problem, like bad DIMMs (run memtest86 for 12+hours to
> make sure)

It's had 24 hours under memtest86 (I had to RMA one memory stick when I 
first got the machine) and as I mentioned handles a make -j255 in 32bit 
mode without a hitch.  The kernel does work apart from that module (and 
floppy.o which I discovered later does much the same thing as the 
ehci-hcd.o).

> To rule out the compiler you can use the compiler/binutils from
> 
> ftp.suse.com:/pub/suse/x86-64/supplementary/CrossTools/8.1-i386/
> 
> That's rpms for SuSE 8.1/i386, but I suspect you install it on Debian with
> rpm2cpio or somesuch. That's an older gcc 3.2 that is known to work.
> 
> Then just put /opt/cross/bin in your $PATH and compile with
> CROSS_COMPILE=x86_64-linux- ARCH=x86_64
> 
OK I'll try that.

Tony