Re: PowerMac kernels with GCC 2.95.1

1999-11-03 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, David Welton wrote: > On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 08:35:26AM +0100, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > > it gets stuck after printing "instantiating rtas... done" but before it > > > manages to initialize the framebuffer. > > Yes, it exits prom_init, and then dies somewhere. Where, precis

Re: PowerMac kernels with GCC 2.95.1

1999-11-03 Thread David Welton
On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 08:35:26AM +0100, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > another data point: chrp appears to have problems with the new gcc. > No, it isn't gcc2.95, it is the kernel, the 2.2.x one. 2.3.x will > boot, but the curent kernel versions are so buggy with so many > compile errors :-(( > >

Re: PowerMac kernels with GCC 2.95.1

1999-11-03 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> another data point: chrp appears to have problems with the new gcc. No, it isn't gcc2.95, it is the kernel, the 2.2.x one. 2.3.x will boot, but the curent kernel versions are so buggy with so many compile errors :-(( > using franz sirl's gcc 2.95.2 (0h), 2.2.12 (specifically, cort's 19990903 >

Re: PowerMac kernels with GCC 2.95.1

1999-11-03 Thread Brad Midgley
another data point: chrp appears to have problems with the new gcc. using franz sirl's gcc 2.95.2 (0h), 2.2.12 (specifically, cort's 19990903 snapshot) fails to boot on the ibm f50 i'm using. it gets stuck after printing "instantiating rtas... done" but before it manages to initialize the framebu

Re: PowerMac kernels with GCC 2.95.1

1999-11-02 Thread Frank Petzold
Thus spake VALETTE Eric ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I would suggest to upgrade to gcc-2.95.2 as there are severe bug for PPC > with 2.95.1 (incorrect loop generation, mishandling of volatile keyword, ...). Was someone able to build a working 2.2.10 kernel for APUS with 2.95.2?

Re: PowerMac kernels with GCC 2.95.1

1999-11-02 Thread VALETTE Eric
> "Shaw" == Shaw Terwilliger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shaw> I'm using GCC as part of Potato (1999/10/29) on my PowerBook (G3 Series Shaw> Lombard). Since about 1999/09/24 (my last working kernel) I haven't Shaw> been able to successfully boot a new kernel. I've been using Paul Shaw> Macke

Re: PowerMac kernels with GCC 2.95.1

1999-11-02 Thread Frank Petzold
Thus spake Georg Bauer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hm. egcs isn't available for potato - at least not as an easily to spot > package ... Of course it was overwritten by the 2.95.1 gcc. This is one thing I don't like so much in debian: You cannot get older packages, if you did not keep them for yoursel

Re: PowerMac kernels with GCC 2.95.1

1999-11-01 Thread Georg Bauer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Frank Petzold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Use egcs-1.1.2. gcc 2.95.x did never work for mw compiling kernels for > APUS either. Hm. egcs isn't available for potato - at least not as an easily to spot package ... bye, Georg

Re: PowerMac kernels with GCC 2.95.1

1999-11-01 Thread Matt Porter
On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 01:27:54PM -0500, Shaw Terwilliger wrote: > I'm using GCC as part of Potato (1999/10/29) on my PowerBook (G3 Series > Lombard). Since about 1999/09/24 (my last working kernel) I haven't > been able to successfully boot a new kernel. I've been using Paul > Mackerras's archi

Re: PowerMac kernels with GCC 2.95.1

1999-11-01 Thread Frank Petzold
Thus spake Shaw Terwilliger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > kernels? Is there some other compiler I should be using (older > GCC)? Use egcs-1.1.2. gcc 2.95.x did never work for mw compiling kernels for APUS either.

PowerMac kernels with GCC 2.95.1

1999-10-30 Thread Shaw Terwilliger
I'm using GCC as part of Potato (1999/10/29) on my PowerBook (G3 Series Lombard). Since about 1999/09/24 (my last working kernel) I haven't been able to successfully boot a new kernel. I've been using Paul Mackerras's archive (rsync samba.anu.edu.au::linux-pmac-stable) the whole time. My 1999/09