Re: GCC-2.9.5 & Linux ( and Co. ) ...

Bernhard Rosenkraenzer (brosenkr@redhat.de)
Sun, 24 Oct 1999 11:12:11 +0200 (CEST)


On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Alex Buell wrote:

> > Some people have reported problems with gcc 2.95.x compiled kernels, I
> > (and many others) am running 2.95.x compiled kernels without any
> > problems.
>
> I believe that some people were using old binutils with gcc-2.95.x which
> caused problems. HJ Lu recommended using binutils 2.9.5.0.16 to avoid
> problems

That's what I'm using.

> - that's what I've got and I've got a sane 2.2.13 running without
> the aforementioned patch.

The patch is required to make some drivers compile - in2000, seagate and
some other drivers are using broken asm constructs.

LLaP
bero

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