Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Chris Kelly <> | | Subject | RE: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (staging tree related) | | Date | Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:08:02 +0000 |
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Hi Stephen,
Many thanks for your reply. This is exactly what I needed. I have submitted a patch to fix the problem and it builds OK with the compiler you suggested below.
Kind regards Chris Kelly
-----Original Message----- From: Stephen Rothwell [mailto:sfr@canb.auug.org.au] Sent: 29 February 2012 7:52 AM To: Chris Kelly Cc: Greg KH; linux-next@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (staging tree related) Hi Chris,
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:35:35 +0000 Chris Kelly <ckelly@ozmodevices.com> wrote: > Hi Greg, > > I believe I understand the cause of the problem and would like to > submit a patch to fix it. However, I am unclear on what the starting > point is given that the final patch was reverted from linux-next. Do I > assume that patch will be reapplied before the applying the new patch > or should I provide another patch to reapply the reverted patch? Is it > acceptable to submit patches generated against the head of linux-next?
Your patches are all still in Greg's tree which I merge into linux-next every day. I have then been reverting that last patch each day. Your patch should be against Greg's tree (or your last patch) and then when the fix is in Greg's tree, I will get it in linux-next and stop reverting the other patch.
> Before submitting the patch, I would like to test that the patch > really does fix the issue found by Stephen. Since it doesn't occur > when building for x32 or x64 then I need to setup a PowerPC > cross-compile tool chain. Do you have any suggestions as to where I > can pull a prebuilt tool chain or do I need to build directly from the GNU sources.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/files/bin/x86_64/4.6.0/x86_64-gcc-4.6.0-nolibc_powerpc64-linux.tar.xz
That is am x86_64 hosted powerpc64 compiler suitable for building the kernel.
-- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au
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