Re: Support for Linux on Sparc?

Donald Becker wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Matt Distefano wrote:
> 
> 
>>At 01:35 PM 4/21/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>>CP1500 modules # gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -O6 -I/usr/src/linux/include 

-O6 ?
could that cause problems? Perhaps try -O2?

>>-include /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h -c pci-scan.c
>>In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/asm/processor.h:23,
>>                  from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/prefetch.h:13,
>>                  from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/list.h:6,
>>                  from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/module.h:12,
>>                  from pci-scan.c:56:
>>/usr/src/linux/include/asm/page.h:111: warning: call-clobbered register 
>>used for
>>  global register variable
> 
> 
> This happens when the compiler is reading the include files, before any
> of the code in pci-scan.c.  It looks like a flaw in the Sparc include
> files.

Is this for 64bit sparc?
Has anyone trried it on the Opteron yet? It may be a 64bit issue.

	-Thomas

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