Re: Linux 2.6.0-test7 - stability freeze

From: Olaf Hering
Date: Mon Oct 13 2003 - 12:36:38 EST


On Wed, Oct 08, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> The more interesting thing is that I and Andrew are trying to calm down
> development, and I do _not_ want to see patches that don't fix a real and
> clear bug. In other words, the "cleanup and janitorial" stuff is on hold,
> and -test8 and then -test9 should be for _stability_ fixes only.

a longstanding bug, should probably go to the main Makefile. But I dont
know if all supported archs know about -msoft-float.


diff -p -purN linux-2.6.0-test7/arch/i386/Makefile linux-2.6.0-test7.fpu/arch/i386/Makefile
--- linux-2.6.0-test7/arch/i386/Makefile 2003-10-08 21:24:04.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.0-test7.fpu/arch/i386/Makefile 2003-10-13 19:26:21.000000000 +0200
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ LDFLAGS := -m elf_i386
OBJCOPYFLAGS := -O binary -R .note -R .comment -S
LDFLAGS_vmlinux :=

-CFLAGS += -pipe
+CFLAGS += -pipe -msoft-float

# prevent gcc from keeping the stack 16 byte aligned
CFLAGS += $(call check_gcc,-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2,)
--


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