[PATCH 7/16] Early serial debug support for PPC44x

David Gibson dwg at au1.ibm.com
Wed Feb 14 11:16:22 EST 2007


On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:04:47AM -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 17:10 +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> > This patch adds support for early serial debugging via the built in
> > port on IBM/AMCC PowerPC 44x CPUs.  It uses a bolted TLB entry in
> > address space 1 for the UART's mapping, allowing robust debugging both
> > before and after the initialization of the MMU.
> 
> When enabling this option, I get the following error:
> 
>  AS      arch/powerpc/kernel/head_44x.o
> arch/powerpc/kernel/head_44x.S: Assembler messages:
> arch/powerpc/kernel/head_44x.S:179: Warning: left operand is a bignum;
> integer 0 assumed
> arch/powerpc/kernel/head_44x.S:183: Error: bignum invalid
> arch/powerpc/kernel/head_44x.S:184: Warning: left operand is a bignum;
> integer 0 assumed
> make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel/head_44x.o] Error 1
> make: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel] Error 2

Um... works for me?  What version of the assembler are you using?

I'm using a 64-bit constant there, but for me at least the assembler
is able to handle manipulating it in constant expressions.

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