Re: Kernel compile error with 2.5.66

John Goerzen (jgoerzen@complete.org)
Sun, 30 Mar 2003 20:30:30 -0600


Stewart Smith <stewartsmith@mac.com> writes:

> Yeap, I'm getting this too. There seems to be a whole bunch of changes
> in include/asm-ppc64/pgtable.h that aren't in
> include/asm-ppc/pgtable.h

I should say that after my post, I tried out the linuxppc-2.5 2.5.66
tree at http://www.penguinppc.org/dev/kernel.shtml, and it did not
have this problem.

However, I could not get it to compile for numerous other reasons:

* If PnP BIOS is enabled, it fails to compile the x86 assembler.

* All Modules fail to load due to some sort of missing symbol (sorry, I
didn't take notes) Q_MODULE or something maybe.

* A non-module-enabled kernel fails to build, complaining of a
missing isa_virt_to_bus symbol. And that happened even after I
enabled the unnecessary ISA support.

* hdparm causes a kernel oops and apparent lockup (again, I didn't
take notes, I was just trying to make the darn thing boot)

In short, 2.5 on PowerPC does not seem to be in a very good state
right now.

-- John

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