Re: ppc64 build broke between 2.6.11-bk6 and 2.6.11-bk7

[Martin J. Bligh]

--Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote (on Friday, March 18, 2005 10:35:13 +0100):

> Mikael Pettersson writes:
>  > Andrew Morton writes:
>  >  > "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  >  > >
>  >  > > drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x182bc): In function `.matroxfb_probe':
>  >  > > : undefined reference to `.mac_vmode_to_var'
>  >  > > make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
>  >  > > 
>  >  > > Anyone know what that is?
>  >  > > 
>  >  > 
>  >  > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-mm4/broken-out/fbdev-kconfig-fix-for-macmodes-and-ppc.patch
>  >  > 
>  >  > should fix it.
>  > 
>  > It seems the culprit is "matroxfb-compile-error.patch" which unconditionally adds
>  > macmodes.o to the Makefile line for CONFIG_FB_MATROX. This obviously breaks on !ppc.
> 
> !pmac of course; I assume Martin configured for some kind of POWER box and not a G5.
> 
>  > The patch Andrew mentions above converts the Kconfig entry for FB_MATROX to do a
>  > "select FB_MACMODES if PPC_PMAC", so dropping matroxfb-compile-error.patch should suffice.
> 
> 

Yeah, it's a 4x LPAR on PPC690 Power 4 server.

M.

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