Linuv 2.6.15-rc1

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Nov 14 03:37:44 EST 2005


On Nov 12, 2005, at 4:25 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 22:37 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
>> On Saturday 12 November 2005 22:00, you wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Michael Buesch wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Latest GIT tree does not boot on my G4 PowerBook.
>>>
>>> What happens if you do
>>>
>>> 	make ARCH=powerpc
>>>
>>> and build everything that way (including the "config" phase)?
>>
>> I did
>> make mrproper
>> copy the .config over again
>> make ARCH=powerpc menuconfig
>> exit and save from menuconfig
>> make ARCH=powerpc
>
> You need to disable PREP support when building with ARCH=powerpc  
> for 32
> bits, it doesn't build (yet). We should remove it from Kconfig...
>
> Also, there is an issue with the make clean stuff, make sure when
> switching archs to also remove arch/powerpc/include/asm symlink before
> trying to build.

Can we please add some defconfigs for arch/powerpc to possibly help  
with this issue.  I'm think a pmac32, pmac64, and whatever other 64  
bit configs would be a good start.

- kumar



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