[Cbe-oss-dev] Problems building the ps3-linux branch

[Julio M. Merino Vidal]

On 14/03/2007, at 20:12, Geoff Levand wrote:

> Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
>> I'm cross-building from a Fedora Core 6 i386 system by using the ppu-
>> gcc distributed with the Cell SDK 2.0.  So, I've "ARCH=powerpc" and
>> "CROSS_COMPILE=ppu-" on the top-level Makefile.
>>
>> Unfortunately, when building the kernel, the process bombs out in the
>> ps3-hvcall.S file.  The attached log contains more details.
>
> The version of binutils (2.16.1) in SDK 2.0 doesn't support the ':req'
> macro construct.
>
> I pushed this fix (d816b513b) to kernel.org, but it will take a
> while for it to propagate to the mirrors.

Excellent; thank you very much.

The kernel now builds for me.  Will confirm whether it works on not  
when I get to the university tomorrow morning.

Kind regards,

-- 
Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmerino at ac.upc.edu>