From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make mm4 compile on ppc
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 17:23:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030805172314.0f2c0a5b.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16176.18643.751075.223016@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote:
>
> Andrew,
>
> This patch gets -mm4 to compile and boot for me.
Great, thanks.
> I have only tried UP
> so far. It's not completely happy though: I got several messages
> saying "INIT: /dev/initctl is not a fifo", and gdm failed to start.
> Not sure what is wrong.
Is current -linus OK?
> You'll notice I had to take out include/asm/asm_offsets.h from the
> dependencies for arch/$(ARCH)/vmlinux.lds.s, basically because ppc
> doesn't have an asm_offsets.h (we call it just offsets.h). It's not
> clear to me why vmlinux.lds.s would ever depend on structure offsets,
> but if it does, surely this dependency should go in the arch-specific
> Makefile?
Yes, the dependency of vmlinux.lds.[so] on CONFIG_FOO has confused the heck
out of kbuild. Kai and Sam are working on it and patches are flying about.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-06 0:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-06 0:16 Paul Mackerras
2003-08-06 0:23 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-08-06 11:46 ` Paul Mackerras
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