Re: [PATCH 1/1] scripts/recordmcount.pl: There is no -m32 option on Super-H

[Steven Rostedt]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 09:18:28 +0100
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Steven!
> 
> >> The Super-H architecure seems to be without any maintainer.
> >> Maybe Steven cares to pick this patch up. Dunno...
> 
> > Yeah, I remember when the SH maintainer left.
> 
> > I can pick it up. How urgent is it? Does it need to go in before the
> > next merge window? And does it need to be tagged for stable?
> 
> I am one of the Debian porters of the SH port. Currently, the kernel
> package fails to build from source on our automatic build machines
> due to this bug. Here is the full build log where you can see it
> fail with gcc-4.8:

Unfortunately I don't have a 4.8 cross compiler for superH. It seems to
work fine with -m32 with 4.6 and earlier (which I do have).

> 
> >
> http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=linux&arch=sh4&ver=3.16.7-ckt4-1&stamp=1421425783
> 
> Since the SH port of Debian was long time poorly maintained, this
> issue hasn't got any attention for quite a while which means the
> most current kernel version we have at the moment on SH is 3.2.0
> something. I asked Michael to submit this change on my behalf since
> he has submitted kernel patches in the past.
> 
> Thus, it would be nice if this fix could be merged ASAP upstream
> and included in all stable releases as well such that we get a
> working up-to-date kernel on SH soon.

I'll add this info as well to the change log.

-- Steve

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