Re: Linux 2.6.30.2: does not boot



On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Kiko Piris wrote:
Just to clarify:

- you literally have a _working_ 2.6.30.1 that you compiled yourself a
few days ago.

Thatʼs correct.

- But when you try to compile that same kernel _now_, it fails with an
immediate reboot? And not just 2.6.30.2, but 2.6.30.1 does that too?

Also correct.

That certainly implies something else than just the -fwrapv vs
-fno-strict-overflow thing.

Yes, as Marcel Beister pointed, it resulted some binutils bug.
Downgrading the package produced a perfectly bootable 2.6.30.2.

Ok, so it's been narrowed down to binutils. Good.

But we may be looking at two different issues, so maybe your "unable to
compile a working kernel" issue is different from the other reports.

Totally unrelated to other reports, and not a kernel bug, in fact.

Well, it's still not entirely clear that it's unrelated.

It seems that all the people involved are running Debian/sid, and I don't
think we have any firm confirmation yet that it's the compiler flag for
anybody. It was certainly the primary suspect, but maybe that was always
just a red herring guess.

Wolfgang hasn't actually tried to compile without the -fno-strict-overflow
flag yet, and maybe his hang is the same binutils bug.

Of course, maybe I missed some gcc flag confirmation that wasn't cc'd to
me. So who knows..

Linus
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