begin Thomas Duffy quotation:
> On Thu, 2001-10-11 at 02:48, Sean Neakums wrote:
>> I was feeling kinda adventurous and had been having excellent
>> results with XFS on an IA-32 box running Debian unstable, so I
>> moved a SPARC Debian unstable install over to 2.4.11 from the CVS
>> tree. I built the kernel with the sparc64 cross-compiler from
>> Debian's gcc-3.0-sparc64 package, version 3.0.2.
>
> Just so you know, sparc64 kernel is only tested and working with
> 2.92.something version of the compiler. gcc 3.0.2 is untested in
> it's own realm,
I selected gcc-3.0-sparc64 because I mistakenly thought that the
egcs64 package Debian supplies for building kernels had been replaced
by gcc-3.0-sparc64. Debian's egcs64 package reports a version number
of 2.92.11; what I can't seem to find is a gcc 2.95 package that will
emit sparc64 code.
> so you are introducing two unknowns here: 1) gcc 3.0.2 and 2) xfs on
> sparc64. lets start with one and then move to the other...
> that said, have you had luck with a cvs kernel from vger.samba.org
> (dave miller's tree for sparc64) with gcc-3.0.2?
At the moment I'm running Linus' 2.4.12 built with GCC 3.0.2, and
everything seems good so far. Not that that proves anything, of
course; compiler bugs are elusive at best. I have yet to try the vger
tree; does it differ significantly from the mainline?
> or using gcc-3.0.2 on ia32 w/ xfs?
No, I've been using GCC 2.95.4 on IA-32 to build my XFS kernels.
> hmm...and you are introducing cross compiling into the fray, but I
> don't think that should be much of an issue.
Well, the userspace on Debian SPARC is currently 32-bit, so you have
to use a cross-compiler.
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