> Do you think it's worth re-compiling with a <gcc-4.1?? I'm going to try the'new' gcc-4.1.1
> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thomas Schmitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 12:42 PM > Subject: Re: [ivtv-devel] i2c problems with FC5 and svn ivtv 0.8.0 > > >> On Wednesday 31 May 2006 21:12, Simon Baxter wrote: >>> I'm not sure if anyone's following my problems with getting a new >>> PVR-150 >>> card and ivtv working with Fedora Core 5. >> >> I am sure following since I have nearly the same problem on my SuSE 10.1 >> system (see my posting "ivtv-0.6.x / gcc-4.1 / SUSE 10.1 problems" of >> 2006-05-24) for which there also have been no helpful replies. >> The only thing I know is that the problem is depended on the >> compiler/linker toolchain. I can only think of two reasons at >> the moment: >> >> 1) a code generation bug in gcc-4.1. >> 2) better code optimization in gcc-4.1 breaks some assumptions of >> the i2c code. The compiler has really no idea about the dependencies >> needed for accessing hardware (e.g a specific store that has to >> occur before a load) and may reorder C level statements at will as >> long as the C semantics are preserved. >> >> Given that everything else compiled by the gcc 4.1 looks to be fine >> and how often I wrongly tried to blame a compiler for some bugs I >> tend to favor 2). >> >> Thomas >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ivtv-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
