From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272997AbTHFAVx (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 20:21:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272998AbTHFAVx (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 20:21:53 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:31911 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272997AbTHFAVg (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 20:21:36 -0400 Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 17:23:14 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Paul Mackerras Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] make mm4 compile on ppc Message-Id: <20030805172314.0f2c0a5b.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <16176.18643.751075.223016@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> References: <16176.18643.751075.223016@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Paul Mackerras 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.