Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sun Dec 23 2007 - 18:11:55 EST


Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
On Sunday, 23 of December 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc6/2.6.24-rc6-mm1/

- This kernel doesn't work on i386!

It oopses late in boot due to an unrevertable change (e3c1b141) in git-x86
which I stared at for a while then I ran out of time and gave up.

I would have just abandoned this release until it was fixed but I'll be
largely offline for ten days starting tomorrow.

The culprits have been notified and hopefully we'll have a patch for
hot-fixes/ tomorrow.

x86_64 and powerpc work OK though.

Well it doesn't build on x86-64 for me:

CHK include/linux/compile.h
CC arch/x86/ia32/../../../fs/compat_binfmt_elf.o
Assembler messages:
Fatal error: can't create arch/x86/ia32/../../../fs/.tmp_compat_binfmt_elf.o: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [arch/x86/ia32/../../../fs/compat_binfmt_elf.o] Error 2

I will post the .config if anyone is interested.


It's a Kbuild race -- if you keep re-building it will eventually build the right file.

Not excusable, but that's what's going on.

-hpa
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