[PATCH] iSeries build with newer assemblers and compilers

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Tue Aug 16 21:01:00 EST 2005


On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 05:38:38PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> [Paulus wants a smaller patch ...]
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Paulus suggested that we put xLparMap in its own .c file so that we can
> generate a .s file to be included into head.S.  This doesn't get around
> the problem of having it at a fixed address, but it makes it more
> palatable.
> 
> It would be good if this could be included in 2.6.13 as it solves our
> build problems with various versions of binutils and gcc.  In
> particular, it allows us to build an iSeries kernel on Debian unstable
> using their biarch compiler.
> 
> This has been built and booted on iSeries and built for pSeries and g5.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr at canb.auug.org.au>

Acked-by: David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au>

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