> Hi.
>
> I intend to test XFS for a while on a couple of ultra boxes and then use
> it on production servers.
>
> Because I counld't found a "stable" patch that wasn't only for ia(32|64)
> archs, I downloaded the cvs snapshot 2002-02-17.
>
> While compiling the kernel, at the final link I got the following error.
>
> ld -m elf64_sparc -T arch/sparc64/vmlinux.lds arch/sparc64/kernel/head.o
> arch/sparc64/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o init/version.o --start-group
> arch/sparc64/kernel/kernel.o arch/sparc64/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o
> mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o arch/sparc64/math-emu/math-emu.o
> drivers/char/char.o drivers/block/block.o drivers/misc/misc.o
> drivers/net/net.o drivers/media/media.o drivers/ide/idedriver.o
> drivers/cdrom/driver.o drivers/pci/driver.o drivers/sbus/sbus_all.o
> drivers/video/video.o drivers/usb/usbdrv.o drivers/input/inputdrv.o
> drivers/md/mddev.o net/network.o /usr/src/linux/lib/lib.a
> /usr/src/linux/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux/arch/sparc64/prom/promlib.a
> /usr/src/linux/arch/sparc64/lib/lib.a --end-group -o vmlinux
> fs/fs.o: In function `pagebuf_target_blocksize':
> fs/fs.o(.text+0xa1d28): undefined reference to `generic_ffs'
> make[1]: *** [kallsyms] Error 1
"generic_ffs" is defined in include/linux/bitops.h, I'm not sure why
sparc can't find it.
> PS. I read at the changelog of the latest stable release, that you guys
> need sparc64 testers. Well, once I have it running what do I have to do?
Use it and see what breaks. :) You can also run the tests in
cmd/xfstests by editing common.config for your hostname, then running
./check 0??
-Eric
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Eric Sandeen XFS for Linux http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
sandeen@xxxxxxx SGI, Inc.
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