Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 9 May 1999 17:09:51 -0700 | From | Max <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.x fails to boot on SPARC 2 (scsi problems) |
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* David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com> [05/07/99 11:45] wrote: > Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 11:19:12 -0700 > From: Max <maxk@chinook.stanford.edu> > > I would be very surprised to hear that compiler choice matters. > > Believe it or not we had to fix a problem exactly like this in the > 2.0.x Sparc kernels, in exactly the ESP driver, and exactly because > egcs was being used as the compiler instead of gcc. > > The issue back then, was that egcs would move some memory references > around (in a legal way, was not a compiler bug) that on slower > machines would cause a race condition which would confuse the ESP > driver and make it barf on disks that normally acted correctly. > > I am not saying we are certainly hitting the same issue here, but when > I read your report, bells went off in my head and this is why I > instantly asked what compiler you were using.
Thanks, I'll try to see if I can get a gcc-compiled kernel to work! In the meantime, I should probably figure out how to set up a cross-compiler on my machine instead of asking others with more disk space to compile the kernel every time. :)
Max
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