On Sat, 21 Oct 2000 14:20:56 -0700 (PDT),
Andrew Edem <aedem@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>OK, I really want to use XFS. I've got an SMP system, (dual 733 PIII's),
>The problem is this, after compiling with GCC 2.95.2 (on Debian woody),
>processes hang when accessing the XFS disk. So, I RTFM, and got EGCS
>1.1.2, which only compiled after some serious hacking to the libio code,
>which was rediculous, because I didn't need C++ anyway. I then boot with a
>kernel compiled with GCC 2.91.66, and my machine hangs because of the USB
>drivers. This might be related to SMP, MPS, or something of the
>sort. Anyhow, I tried again with GCC 2.7.2.3, and the kernel doesn't even
>compile, the assembler pukes. Any ideas?
The best option is egcs 1.1.2 (gcc 2.91.66) and binutils >= 2.9.1.0.25,
the assembler problems come from "as" which is in binutils, not gcc.
Newer versions of gcc are unreliable for the kernel, newer versions of
binutils are OK, I run binutils 2.9.5.0.22. If at all possible, get a
Debian binary for these instead of trying to compile them yourself,
much more reliable.
The USB hang is probably SMP related, there is still a lot of work
going on the USB source. Can you compile the kernel without USB or
make all of USB a module instead of builtin?
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