Re: PowerMac floppy (SWIM-3) doesn't compile

From: Sebastiaan
Date: Sun Nov 30 2003 - 08:36:48 EST


Hi,

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Mikael Pettersson wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 10:19:07 +0100 (MET), Sebastiaan <S.Breedveld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >I am trying to build the 2.6.0-test11 kernel for my PowerMac 7300/166, but
> >the floppy controller doesn't want to compile. I have:
>
> Known problem. Has been reported several times, but the PPC
> maintainers haven't bothered merging the fix yet.
>
> I'm using the patch below since the 2.5.7x kernels.
> (Paul Mackerras' 2.4 swim3 rework forward-ported to 2.5 by me.)
> There's also an "official" powermac tree somewhere which
> includes some swim3 patch, but I don't know if it's the same
> as this one.
>
Thanks, the patch works fine :).

> As for the boot problem you reported, please try a newer gcc
> like 3.2.3 or 3.3.2. I had lots of wierd problems with 2.95.3
> and the 2.4 kernels on ppc before I switched to gcc-3.x.x.
>
I have upgraded to 3.3.2 but the problem remains.

Thanks,
Sebastiaan


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