Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Mar 1998 12:10:16 +0100 | From | Kurt Garloff <> | Subject | Re: is gcc 2.8 safe to use yet ? |
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On Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 10:51:41PM -0800, Mr. James W. Laferriere Network Engineer wrote: > > > > I've had no problems with X _running_ with any (read ALL) of the new > > compilers under either 2.0.x or 2.1.x. I've also tried maxing out the > > optimization with all of them.. makes the kernel slower but works.
If you want to use egcs-2.91.xx or gcc-2.8.x with 2.0.3x kernels in ix86 machines, you have to replace the arch/i386/kernel/ioport.c with the 2.1.70+ version of it. There's an optimization in gcc28/egcs that will prevent IOport access otherwise and thus prevent X from running.
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