Re: Could IDE UDMA corruption be kgcc related?

[Juha Saarinen <juha@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Simon Matter wrote:

> As I read on this list
> XFS kernels can not be compiled with 2.96-85 because it breaks
> something, could it be that egcs-2.91.66 breaks something else in the
> RedHat Kernels.

Possibly. I've got a stable system with gcc 2.96-88, however. Worth a try.
I've abused it severely, with bonnies, tars, and fsstress.


> Why then does RedHat use 2.96-85 for the kernel?

Because it's a way to prepare for gcc 3.0 apparently, and the kernel does
compile with it (some of the XFS code doesn't compile properly with -85,
however).


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Regards,


Juha

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