New kernel posted, new yaboot

1999-11-30 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Hi ! I've uploaded to http://calvaweb.calvacom.fr/bh40/test.html a new kernel for the iBook, new iMac and G4 Sawtooth. It adds support for the iBook internal modem, and some nvram fixes. Also, dmasound is compiled as a module to avoid potential problems with new machines. I've also posted a minor

BootX 1.2b3 released

1999-11-30 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
I've uploaded a new test version of BootX (1.2b3) at http://calvaweb.calvacom.fr/bh40/test.html Please report me any problem with this version ASAP. It should (I hope) fix the various IDE hang issues with b2 and the MacOS 9.0 IDE problem. Some users are still experiencing some SCSI problems with

Re: gcc 2.95.2 vs 2.91

1999-11-30 Thread David Welton
On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 04:38:06AM -0500, Justin McKillican wrote: > _any_ kernels? i just compiled 2.2.13 on gccf 2.95.1 and 2.95.2. I haven't had problems on x86, but I have had very few kernels work on the ppc box. Ciao, -- David N. Welton -+- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -+- http://www.efn.org/~da

Re: gcc 2.95.2 vs 2.91

1999-11-30 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 09:54:23AM +0100, VALETTE Eric wrote: > NB : be sure you use -fno-strict-aliasing when compiling as linux is known > to be broken using the strict-aliasin option. And so, in 2.95.2 and higher, they've made -fno-strict-aliasing the default again. Dan /-

Re: gcc 2.95.2 vs 2.91

1999-11-30 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 02:37:28AM -0500, Phillip R. Jaenke wrote: > David Welton wrote: > > > > So, I was talking with Cort regarding my ongoing RS6K troubles, and he > > mentioned that trying an older compiler might help. > > > > I did indeed have a better time of getting a v2.2.14-preX going w

Re: Vodoo 2/3 (& other video questions)

1999-11-30 Thread Kostas Gewrgiou
On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Michel [iso-8859-1] Dδnzer wrote: > Kostas Gewrgiou wrote: > > > I am not sure about the status of the nv/glint driver but the matrox one has > > some endian problems i started working on it a few days ago and i hope i'll > > have it finished this week. > > > There are en

Re: gcc 2.95.2 vs 2.91

1999-11-30 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously David Welton wrote: > How do I track down what is causing that? There are patches to continously print some registers such as the instructionpointer on your display; that allows you to see exactly where your kernel has crashed. I'm not sure if they're available for powerpc as well thou

Re: gcc 2.95.2 vs 2.91

1999-11-30 Thread Justin McKillican
> *sigh* this isn't just powerpc. this is x86 too. I can't get ANY kernels > to compile with gcc 2.95 or 2.91. Folks, I think at this point it's > SERIOUSLY advisable to just abandon gcc 2.9x as primary and change it to > optional. There's just too much stuff that will NOT compile with it. I > mea

Re: gcc 2.95.2 vs 2.91

1999-11-30 Thread VALETTE Eric
> "David" == David Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> How do I track down what is causing that? First try to find the .c file that is causing the problem. This may be easy or not :(. Then check that compiling that file only with egcs-1.1.2 fixes the problem. Then split the file in mult

Re: gcc 2.95.2 vs 2.91

1999-11-30 Thread David Welton
On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 09:32:39AM +0100, VALETTE Eric wrote: > There were two serious bugs in gcc-2.95.1 for PPC. I found them > while working on RTEMS on MCP750 (PowerPC Compaq PCI borad where I > also ported linux). I reported them and they are now fixed in > gcc-2.95.2. One was fixed within a

Re: gcc 2.95.2 vs 2.91

1999-11-30 Thread VALETTE Eric
> "Brendan" == Brendan Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brendan> "Phillip R. Jaenke" wrote: Phillip> *sigh* this isn't just powerpc. this is x86 too. I can't get ANY kernels Phillip> to compile with gcc 2.95 or 2.91. Folks, I think at this point it's Phillip> SERIOUSLY advisable to just aba

Re: gcc 2.95.2 vs 2.91

1999-11-30 Thread Brendan Simon
"Phillip R. Jaenke" wrote: > *sigh* this isn't just powerpc. this is x86 too. I can't get ANY kernels > to compile with gcc 2.95 or 2.91. Folks, I think at this point it's > SERIOUSLY advisable to just abandon gcc 2.9x as primary and change it to > optional. There's just too much stuff that will N

Re: gcc 2.95.2 vs 2.91

1999-11-30 Thread Phillip R. Jaenke
David Welton wrote: > > So, I was talking with Cort regarding my ongoing RS6K troubles, and he > mentioned that trying an older compiler might help. > > I did indeed have a better time of getting a v2.2.14-preX going with > the 2.91 on my yellow dog partition. > > If we don't have a compiler tha

Re: More on the Apple Network Server

1999-11-30 Thread Phillip R. Jaenke
Robert Liesenfeld wrote: > > On the advice of a couple of responses from my earlier post, I tried > installing on an external drive with another mac, and booted with a > kernel I picked up from ftp.emji.net. Now, on boot, I'm getting this > SCSI error, in an endless loop: > > ncr53c825a-0: Downl

gcc 2.95.2 vs 2.91

1999-11-30 Thread David Welton
So, I was talking with Cort regarding my ongoing RS6K troubles, and he mentioned that trying an older compiler might help. I did indeed have a better time of getting a v2.2.14-preX going with the 2.91 on my yellow dog partition. If we don't have a compiler that can generate good code for kernels,