Re: Oops linux 2.4.23-pre6 on amd64

From: Tony Hoyle
Date: Sun Oct 05 2003 - 04:36:26 EST


Andi Kleen wrote:

That doesn't sound good. Why did you not mention this first, it's unlikely
that such a compiler produces a working kernel. When the segfaults
are not deterministic (go away when you try again) then you likely
have some hardware problem, like bad DIMMs (run memtest86 for 12+hours to
make sure)

It's had 24 hours under memtest86 (I had to RMA one memory stick when I first got the machine) and as I mentioned handles a make -j255 in 32bit mode without a hitch. The kernel does work apart from that module (and floppy.o which I discovered later does much the same thing as the ehci-hcd.o).

To rule out the compiler you can use the compiler/binutils from

ftp.suse.com:/pub/suse/x86-64/supplementary/CrossTools/8.1-i386/

That's rpms for SuSE 8.1/i386, but I suspect you install it on Debian with
rpm2cpio or somesuch. That's an older gcc 3.2 that is known to work.

Then just put /opt/cross/bin in your $PATH and compile with
CROSS_COMPILE=x86_64-linux- ARCH=x86_64

OK I'll try that.

Tony

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