Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Mar 1996 13:15:54 -0500 (EST) | From | David Muench <> | Subject | Re: DPT SCSI & Anything > 1.2.13 |
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On Tue, 26 Mar 1996, Jos Vos wrote:
> I had the same problem with another DPT controller. I'm quite sure that > the "stock" 1.2.13 kernel at least has _some_ problems and causes the above > message. > >From the ftp-site of author of the DPT-driver I got a precompiled kernel > 1.2.x that worked, but unfortunately, the source of that particular > kernel was not available anymore (it must have contained patches, > or it was compiled in a special way...) and I couldn't use it. > > If you need or want to stay with 1.2.13, you'll probably have a problem. > I wanted to do the same, but now I'm running 1.3.76, which basically > works fine (some minor networking problems). > > You may try 1.3.57, which seem to be one of the most stable 1.3.x kernels. > The DPT driver also worked fine there.
Ah, I had the same problem awhile ago. It's not the kernel, it's gcc 2.7.x. Edit your kernel's Makefile and change the CFLAGS to be:
CFLAGS = -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strength-reduce
(1 line)
Then recompile and it should work. It's a gcc bug.
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