new binutils breaks "tlbie" instruction in kernel?

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Feb 3 16:13:33 EST 2005


On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 12:39 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> The "tlbie" instruction has a bit which may be set to indicate regular 
> or large page size.  This used to be set via an optional second parameter.
> 
> Apparently some time between binutils versions 2.15.91.0.2 and 
> 2.15.92.0.2 a change went in to make this second parameter mandatory, 
> which breaks the kernel ppc code.
> 
> What is the recommended way to fix this?  Do all binutils versions 
> understand the second parameter, or will "sufficiently old" versions 
> choke on it?

Wasn't it fixed ?

Ben.





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