arch/i386/kernel/apm.c and pci-pc.c use the lcall instruction
(call far indirect) for invoking BIOS services.
The following syntax is used:
(apm) lcall %cs:apm_bios_entry
(pci-pc) lcall (%edi)
This works ok with binutils 2.9.5, but binutils 2.10.0.18
(gas 2.10.90) as shipped with RedHat 7.0 complains:
Warning: indirect lcall without `*'
To keep gas 2.10.90 happy one can insert the * prefix:
(apm) lcall *%cs:apm_bios_entry
(pci-pc) lcall *(%edi)
but older binutils like 2.9.5 treat these as syntax errors. Sigh.
So how do we want to handle this?
- ignore the warnings? (yuck; I hate compiler/assembler warnings)
- specify 2.10.0.18 as the minimum binutils for 2.4 kernels?
if we're going to do it, we should do it NOW, before the real
2.4.0 is released
/Mikael
> but older binutils like 2.9.5 treat these as syntax errors. Sigh.
>
> So how do we want to handle this?
> - ignore the warnings? (yuck; I hate compiler/assembler warnings)
Correct ;)