Date: 27 Jan 2004 17:26:05 +0100
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:26:05 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Eric <eric@cisu.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, stoffel@lucent.com, ak@muc.de,
       Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, bunk@fs.tum.de, cova@ferrara.linux.it,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Re: Kernels > 2.6.1-mm3 do not boot. - SOLVED
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On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 12:37:43AM -0600, Eric wrote:
> On Monday 26 January 2004 23:50, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Eric <eric@cisu.net> wrote:
> > > YES. I finally have a working 2.6.2-rc1-mm3 booted kernel.
> > >  Lets review folks---
> > >  	reverted -funit-at-a-time
> > >  	patched test_wp_bit so exception tables are sorted sooner
> > >  	reverted md-partition patch
> >
> > The latter two are understood, but the `-funit-at-a-time' problem is not.
> >
> > Can you plesae confirm that restoring only -funit-at-a-time again produces
> > a crashy kernel?  And that you are using a flavour of gcc-3.3?  If so, I
> > guess we'll need to only enable it for gcc-3.4 and later.
> >
> Yes, confirmed. My  version of gcc, I just sent you adding the 
> -funit-at-a-time hung after uncompressing the kernel. I booted a secondary 
> kernel, recompiled without it and all was fine again. Confirmed non-boot for 
> 2.6.2-rc1-mm3 but without a doubt for all kernels previous where 
> -funit-at-a-time is active in the makefile.

Ok thanks for the confimration. I will try to reproduce this with the 
SuSE 8.2 compiler and track it down.

-Andi
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