to get the latest kernel to compile on a powermac g5 takes removing the power8 instructions from sstep.c it will compile with -mpower8 but then wont boot if you dont get rid of the instructions
On Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 1:11 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > On 12/26/17 04:32, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > > Builds of linux for powerpcspe (admittedly not a release architecture) > > have been failing lately: > > > > {standard input}: Assembler messages: > > {standard input}:5854: Error: unrecognized opcode: `ptesync' > > /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/scripts/Makefile.build:319: recipe for target > 'arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.o' failed > > make[6]: *** [arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.o] Error 1 > > Funny, it seems that this particular issue is now uncovering on powerpc > [1] and > ppc64 [2] as well after this change [3] in the GNU Assembler. > > Adrian > > > [1] > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=linux&arch=powerpc&ver=5.15.15-1&stamp=1642579068&raw=0 > > [2] > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=linux&arch=ppc64&ver=5.15.15-1&stamp=1642578946&raw=0 > > [3] > https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=b25f942e18d6ecd7ec3e2d2e9930eb4f996c258a > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] > `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 > >
