From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759406Ab1FASUC (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2011 14:20:02 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:37830 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758115Ab1FASUA (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2011 14:20:00 -0400 Message-ID: <4DE682C0.9060208@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:19:44 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110428 Fedora/3.1.10-1.fc15 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Borislav Petkov CC: Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Some x86, asm cleanups References: <1306873314-32523-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de> <4DE59E9E.5030802@zytor.com> <820d76c11c182f41dcbc652926e27d94.squirrel@www.skyhub.de> In-Reply-To: <820d76c11c182f41dcbc652926e27d94.squirrel@www.skyhub.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06/01/2011 11:14 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: >> >> Any way you can try them out on the gas version from hell[TM], a.k.a. >> 2.16? > > I think by that you mean this guy: > > as --version > GNU assembler 2.16.91.0.5 20051219 (SUSE Linux) > Copyright 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of > the GNU General Public License. This program has absolutely no warranty. > This assembler was configured for a target of `x86_64-suse-linux'. > > at least this is one incarnation of it. I had to install SLES10 SP3 > with the unpatched binutils version in kvm to test. And yes, the kernel > builds fine. Let me know if I should run some randconfigs, in addition. > > Btw, I'm keeping the kvm image for future testing with the bat from hell :). > I think 2.16.9x is really 2.17. -hpa