new binutils breaks "tlbie" instruction in kernel?

[Kumar Gala]

Someone should just add some of our asm files into the ppc binutils 
testsuite, why we cant seem to get a stability on this seems beyond me 
:)  Well, something else to add to the ppc kernel janitors list.

- kumar

On Feb 2, 2005, at 11:13 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> 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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