From: Jeff Kenton <jkenton@tilera.com>
To: kevin diggs <diggskevin38@gmail.com>
Cc: <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: hail marry (booting PowerMac 8600)
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:04:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D49B8C2.3030409@tilera.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikqzjNKXtYHot5jr2o8XerGjZsn9FqDFuFKpr1o@mail.gmail.com>
On 02/02/2011 02:41 PM, kevin diggs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have narrowed this down to one file, drivers/scsi/mesh.c which is
> the host adapter driver for the internal SCSI controller on a
> PowerMac8600. If I compile this file with 4.1.2 and everything else
> with 4.3.5 then the beast will boot.
>
> Anyone have any thoughts on what changed (something optimizery I would
> guess?) between 4.1.2 and 4.3.5?
strict-aliasing? Try building with -fnostrict-aliasing and see if it helps.
> Thanks!
>
> kevin
>
> P.S.: MAN I'M FREAKIN' FREEZIN!
>
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:15 PM, kevin diggs<diggskevin38@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> If I enable SMP then I can get a 4.3.5 compiled kernel to boot. I also
>> tried 4.2.4 with no success (no SMP). 4.1.2 WILL boot (again no SMP).
>>
>> Is there anyone here that knows more than I do (which means they know
>> something - I know nothing) about the intricacies of Linux kernel
>> building, especially on PowerPC.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> kevin
>>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-02 20:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-22 2:10 kevin diggs
2011-01-22 2:36 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2011-01-25 4:16 ` kevin diggs
2011-02-02 19:41 ` kevin diggs
2011-02-02 20:04 ` Jeff Kenton [this message]
2011-02-02 21:06 ` kevin diggs
2011-02-02 22:07 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2011-02-02 22:23 ` kevin diggs
2011-02-02 22:36 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2011-02-03 0:03 ` kevin diggs
2011-02-03 0:13 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2011-02-03 0:59 ` kevin diggs
2011-02-03 1:58 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2011-02-03 8:39 ` VAUGHAN Jay
2011-02-03 21:10 ` kevin diggs
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