Hi Yonatan, On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 01:48:15PM +0300, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: > Problem still seems to be in 3.3 unless defined CONFIG_VSX.
What does the warning say? > Should I submit a patch? Probably. Although you should base your patch on v3.4-rc1. baruch > On Wed, 4 Apr 2012, Baruch Siach wrote: > >Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 13:22:59 +0300 > >From: Baruch Siach <[email protected]> > >To: Oleg Goldshmidt <[email protected]> > >Cc: Jonathan Ben Avraham <[email protected]>, ILUG <[email protected]> > >Subject: Re: [YBA] kernel compile errors with GCC >= 4.6 > > > >Hi Oleg, > > > >On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 12:49:44PM +0300, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > >>On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Jonathan Ben Avraham > >><[email protected]>wrote: > >> > >>>Dear linux-il colleagues, > >>>GCC 4.6 introduced many new warnings that cause -Werror to stop the > >>>compilation for some platforms, such as powerpc, in various files. > >> > >>Oh, I didn't even know they finally introduced -Werror... Good. > > > >This in the default only for PowerPC specific code, i.e. code under > >arch/powerpc. > > > >>If it is in the way maybe KCFLAGS=-Wno-error or similar may serve as a > >>workaround? Or KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS="" ? > > > >This behaviour can be disabled by setting CONFIG_PPC_DISABLE_WERROR, find > >under "Kernel hacking". > > > >>Cf. Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt > >> > >>You didn't say what kernel version - I just went to LXR for the latest. > >> > >>>My question is in general, is there somewhere where the relationship > >>>between kernel version and gcc version (or other compiler version) is made > >>>explicit? > >> > >>Not that I know of. The minimal versions of everything needed are in > >>Documentation/Changes. I guess you are not interested in "minimal". > >> > >>I would be very much surprised if the kernel could not be built with > >>gcc-4.6 - this is stock on Fedora, so lots of people must be using it. > >>Maybe not on PowerPC, though > > > >Recent kernel versions surely have all these warnings fixed. The kernel in > >question, I suppose, is quite ancient. > > > >baruch -- http://baruch.siach.name/blog/ ~. .~ Tk Open Systems =}------------------------------------------------ooO--U--Ooo------------{= - [email protected] - tel: +972.2.679.5364, http://www.tkos.co.il - _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
