Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:01:33 +0100 (BST) | From | Mark Fortescue <> | Subject | Re: Sparc32 not working:2.6.23-rc1 (git commit 1e4dcd22efa7d24f637ab2ea3a77dd65774eb005) |
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On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 07:26:29PM +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote: >> ... >> I am going to try to cherry pick a set of commits to see if I can't get a >> better idear of where the memory corruption on sun4c is coming from. Build >> problems sue to the DMA changes make git bisecting un-usable untill I have >> found out which patches fix the DMA build issues. > > You have any known-good kernel? > > Boot back into this kernel for bisecting and compiling the kernels for > bisecting there. >
As I said, bisecting does not work if you can't build the kernel because of un-defined symbols spanning most of the revisions you are interested in.
I have isolated the revisions that do not build so I should be able to cerry pick a commit/commits that fixes the build issues. Once done, I will be able to investigate the original issue.
If it were practical to do a build test on all supported platforms before submitting patches then this would not be so much of an issue but ...
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