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Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 09:49:16 +0100
From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
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To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Steve Fox <drfickle@us.ibm.com>,
       Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Subject: Re: 2.6.21-mm1 -- x86 verify_cpu.S compile failure
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Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:46:20AM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
>> We are seeing the following compile error on older x86 installs:
>>
>>   arch/i386/kernel/verify_cpu.S: Assembler messages:
>>   arch/i386/kernel/verify_cpu.S:13: Error: `(%esp)' is
>> 			 not a valid 16 bit base/index expression
>>
>> Seems to come from:
>>
>>   x86_64-mm-i386-verify-cpu
>>
>> Compiler:
>>
>>   gcc version 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-3)
> 
> Your compiler must be a brother in spirit of Andrew's vaio.
> 
> Does this patch help? 

Heh, it often feels like they are kin.  I've submitted some tests and
will let you know, but it looks plausable :).

-apw
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