Re: 2.1.92, the woes continue

Riley Williams (rhw@bigfoot.com)
Sat, 4 Apr 1998 14:55:20 +0100 (BST)


Hi George.

> Well, the terminator wasnt the problem.

> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2
> -fomit-frame-pointer -D__SMP__ -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -DCPU=486
> -D__SMP__ -c -o BusLogic.o BusLogic.c
> {standard input}: Assembler messages:
> {standard input}:1: Error: invalid character '_' in opcode
> make[3]: *** [BusLogic.o] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi'

> Running again went right through. This is the oddest thing I have seen.
> I am wondering if stuff in getting paged in on top of stuff that is
> running. I do not yet know enough about the internals to start wading
> through this but something is very wrong. I have no trouble with a fully
> loaded system running .89 (none of THESE troubles, I mean).

Perhaps somebody could try compiling it whilst running something like
kernel 2.0.33 so as to ensure that it's not caused by a bug in the
kernel you're running...

Best wishes from Riley.

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