On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 09:52:22AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > >No, this code is protected by various system checks. > > > >We want -mcpu=ev5 such that the kernel as a whole will run everywhere, > >but we require these specific instructions on specific ev56/ev6 systems > >for i/o. > > rth, can you eyeball the summary I posted at > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112109202911699&w=2 ? > My limited understanding is that gcc is fine, no need to revert anything, > but the linux kernel configury needs to stop doing > -mcpu=ev5 -Wa,-mev6 > for CONFIG_ALPHA_EV5/CONFIG_ALPHA_GENERIC, since those specific instructions > really aren't there on real ev5 machines, and passing > -Wa,-mev6 keeps it from substituting a macro.
Absolutely not. While one can argue about which in the gcc+binutils pair is buggy, the kernel is *not* buggy. Please re-read my problem description above, and recall that this is for a GENERIC kernel, that runs on ALL alpha systems. r~
