Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 13:11:53 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: bunk@fs.tum.de, cova@ferrara.linux.it, eric@cisu.net,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Re: Kernels > 2.6.1-mm3 do not boot. - SOLVED
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Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> wrote:
>
> > It seems use-funit-at-a-time breaks with distributions shipping a gcc
> > 3.3 that supports -funit-at-a-time.
> 
> It works for me with the hammer branch gcc 3.3 with -funit-at-a-time.
> 
> Are you sure the exception table sorting patch was properly applied?

I'd say so.  There are no extable patches in current -mm.

> > Th patch below replaces use-funit-at-a-time.patch and uses 
> > scripts/gcc-version.sh from add-config-for-mregparm-3-ng* to use 
> > -funit-at-a-time only with gcc >= 3.4 .
> 
> I disagree with that change.

Well there doesn't seem much doubt that -funit-at-a-time causes Fabio's
kernel to fail.  Do we know exactly which compiler he is using?

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