Re: Linux 4.5-rc1

[Sudip Mukherjee]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 09:36:08AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 01/25/2016 09:18 AM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> >On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 09:05:21AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> >>On 01/25/2016 12:16 AM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> >>>On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 06:42:01PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> >>>>On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 02:08:22PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >>>>>So the merge window is over, and rc1 is out there.  Go test!
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Here are some early test results:
> >>>>
> >>>>Build results:
> >>>>	total: 146 pass: 142 fail: 4
> >>>>Failed builds:
> >>>>	alpha:allmodconfig
> >>>>	m68k:allmodconfig
> >>>>	parisc:allmodconfig
> >>>>	xtensa:allmodconfig
> >>>
> >>>And for me powerpc allmodconfig with:
> >>>sound/core/compress_offload.c: In function 'snd_compr_ioctl':
> >>>sound/core/compress_offload.c:804:2: error: case label does not reduce to an integer constant
> >>>   case _IOC_NR(SNDRV_COMPRESS_GET_CODEC_CAPS):
> >>>	    ^
> >>>Stephen also complained about this.
> >>>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/2345968
> >>>
> >>powerpc:allmodconfig passes for me. Did you enable some additional build options ?
> >
> >No extra options. Only allmodconfig.
> >
> >>If not, what is your toolchain version ?
> >
> >5.3.0
> >
> I assume that means gcc.
> 
> Did you build the toolchain yourself, or did you get it from somewhere ?

Built it. Started building my own when I was having internal compiler
error with an old version of cris compiler, and there was no support as
it was very old. And when i tried to search for a new version, i could
not find any.

This 5.3.0 powerpc compiler you can find at:
http://chat.vectorindia.net/crosstool/x86_64/5.3.0/powerpc64-linux.tar.xz

regards
sudip