Re: gcc in testing (2.95.4) can't a build working kernel

2002-02-16 Thread Scott Venier
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > I don't know much about the qlogicisp driver since I don't have one (I > stick to symbios chips on my alphas since I'm VERY familiar with them from > my API days). Is that line the memcpy line? If so, what are the details > on the panic? Als

Re: gcc in testing (2.95.4) can't a build working kernel

2002-02-15 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Scott Venier wrote: > any chance you have a similar patch to qlogicisp.c? I'm getting a panic > on line 1047 (in 2.4.17's version of qlogicisp.c). Though, I also got > that panic using gcc 2.95.2, but not using gcc 2.96 (not sure which > particular one). I don't know mu

Re: gcc in testing (2.95.4) can't a build working kernel

2002-02-15 Thread Scott Venier
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > I'm attaching a patch for the SMP problem. I think gcc is generating bad > code, but the function that it's generating bad code for is > unnecessary. Unfortunately, upstream kernel people never saw fit to > accept this patch. > any chance you

Re: gcc in testing (2.95.4) can't a build working kernel

2002-02-13 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Scott Venier wrote: > That's a bit of a broad statement in the subject line, so let me clairify > a bit. gcc 2.95.4 on alpha has some pretty nasty bugs. Because of those > bugs, it can't build many parts of the linux kernel. Some of the problems > are in device drivers (th