/proc/ksyms change for IA64 (fwd)
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with old modutils, modules will oops. I don't see this as a problem, the IA64 population is fairly small, in any case gcc cross compile for IA64 has problems right now.
The proposal looks fine. I have another question.
What problems exist with cross compiling.
We are still using the cross-compiler for all of our building & testing. We use:
gcc version 2.96-ia64-000717 snap 001117 (plus some patches that Ralf added last Dec).
I know that at some point we need to convert to native builds but right now we dont have sufficient bigsur/lion boxes to do that.
We have not seen any problems with the compiler we are using - at least we have not attributed a problem to the compiler.
Should we upgrade to gcc3.0 yet???
Any info on this subject would be appreciated......
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Thanks Jack Steiner (651-683-5302) (vnet 233-5302) [email protected]
Re: [RFC] /proc/ksyms change for IA64
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What problems exist with cross compiling.
We are still using the cross-compiler for all of our building & testing. We use:gcc version 2.96-ia64-000717 snap 001117 (plus some patches that Ralf added last Dec).I know that at some point we need to convert to native builds but right now we dont have sufficient bigsur/lion boxes to do that.
We have not seen any problems with the compiler we are using - at least we have not attributed a problem to the compiler.
The changes to the copy_user pipeline code in the latest 2.4.7-ia64 patch break snap 001117 in some circumstances. There are workarounds but they require changes to code that is not IA64 related, not satisfactory.
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Should we upgrade to gcc3.0 yet???
I have not succeeded building a cross compiler ix86 to ia64 for gcc 3.0, using a current CVS tree. The flow insn code breaks on some type conversions in cross compile mode, even when using gcc 3.0 as the base compiler. Debugging is still in progress.
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"Jack" == Jack Steiner <[email protected]> writes:
Jack> I know that at some point we need to convert to native builds Jack> but right now we dont have sufficient bigsur/lion boxes to do Jack> that.
Jack> We have not seen any problems with the compiler we are using - Jack> at least we have not attributed a problem to the compiler.
Jack> Should we upgrade to gcc3.0 yet???
Probably not yet. I would stick to gcc-2.96 based on what you can find in Red Hat's (or one of the other distributions') ia64 SRPMS.
Jes