From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261416AbUE3AdG (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 May 2004 20:33:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261418AbUE3AdG (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 May 2004 20:33:06 -0400 Received: from opersys.com ([64.40.108.71]:4868 "EHLO www.opersys.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261416AbUE3AdD (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 May 2004 20:33:03 -0400 Message-ID: <40B92D12.5040107@opersys.com> Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 20:38:42 -0400 From: Karim Yaghmour Reply-To: karim@opersys.com Organization: Opersys inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, fr, fr-be, fr-ca, fr-fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Kegel CC: John Bradford , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Recommended compiler version References: <40B8A161.5040306@kegel.com> <40B922D5.5090609@opersys.com> In-Reply-To: <40B922D5.5090609@opersys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Karim Yaghmour wrote: ... > kernels as well, to see if they too would work. I noticed that > some that actually failed as above (causing a fault very early > at boot time), now didn't fail with 3.3.2, but printed nothing > to the terminal and the system would eventually reboot -- as if > console=ttyS0,9600 had no effect and the kernel panicked as > expected because of the missing rootfs. This just above is actually due pilot error. I had been trying so many different kernels that I had forgotten to check whether console on serial was enabled ... No wonder nothing was displayed. To recap, I've also got the 2.4.25-ben1 and 2.6.6 working with gcc 3.3.2. 2.4.25-ben1 still has the same problem as described earlier with gcc 3.4.0, but 2.6.6 works fine with gcc 3.4.0. I'm probably going to stick to 3.3.2, though, as I have no intention of chasing gcc 3.4.0's breaking of some user-space stuff. Karim -- Author, Speaker, Developer, Consultant Pushing Embedded and Real-Time Linux Systems Beyond the Limits http://www.opersys.com || karim@opersys.com || 1-866-677-4546