Re: 2.4 critical compiling error in softirq.c with gcc 4.3

Cheers,

On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 21:21:15 +0100 (CET)
> Ivan Vucica <ivucica_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> Since h3800 is not supported with 2.6 kernels (almost no drivers were
>> ported)
>
> That's not true.

Pretty true. MMC for starters. Observe, asic1_mmc.c is a copypaste from
2.4 (at least it was last time I checked, few weeks ago). If something
changed, I'll be extremely glad to use 2.6 instead.

And asic1_mmc.c is not alone.

I had some free_time/day few months ago, but as time passes, I have less
and less of that. So, although I have tried in many ways to:
a) find a mentor to help me hack the kernel
b) try to _contact_ several members of h3800 porting team to assist me
    by providing docs and/or mentorship

Under b) I mean Jamey Hicks and Andrew Christian. I even went through other
people to do so (George France). George said he'll give my mail to Andrew,
but it's been a more than three months since he said that. Since my last
poke, it's been about a month.

Although, even if Andrew or Jamey by some wonder responded now, the
free_time/day has in the meantime vanished, so I probably won't be working
on porting h3800 to 2.6.

>
>> I'm stuck with 2.4 which doesn't appear to compile with
>> today's compilers.
>
> 2.4 doesn't even exist per some of definitions of what "exist" means.

Hm, I'm feeling rather stupid right now. But I'll ask it anyway:
What did you mean? Doesn't exist? Eh?

>
>> Or, the "current" CVS has holes like Swiss cheese.
>>
>> Hints? Fixes?
>
> No, patches. Welcome. ;-)

Well, if I knew what's the problem, I wouldn't be reporting a bug, I'd
send a patch immediately. But since I don't know what's the problem ... :)

Additionally, check the other post, I've tried with 4.3, 4.2, 4.1 with
EABI, Sourcery 3.4 with EABI, and finally Handhelds 3.4.1 with (it
appears) no EABI.

Either softirq.c or cpufreq.c screws something up.
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Ivan Vucica
Received on Mon Mar 03 2008 - 16:33:06 EST