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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