Problem cross-compiling for MPC860T on x86 host

[Dan Kegel]

Matthew S. McClintock wrote:
>>"L. Puneeth Rao" <puneeth_l at roc.co.in> wrote:
>>>         I have a MPC860T evaluation board, and i would like to load
>>>linux2.4 kernel. For this i have used a x86 system as host machine and
>>>followed the procedure prescribed in
>>>http://penguinppc.org/embedded/cross-compiling/. i have obtained 2.4.18
>>>kernel sources and applied the suggested patch ppc-patch-2.4.18 and
>>>additional tools used are gcc-core-3.3.1 and binutils-2.11.90.0.8. ...
>>>/usr/src/linux/include/asm/unistd.h:413: error: asm-specifier for variable
>>>`__sc_4' conflicts with asm clobber list
>
> I saw these warnings when I tried to use a compiler that was too new to
> compile to kernel. For the that was gcc 3.3.1 compiling linux 2.4.19.
> You may be seeing the same problem.

Yes.  See http://gcc.gnu.org/PR9379
A fix is included in linux-2.4.21, I think.
- Dan

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