Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for Feb 17 (mips build failures)

From: Markos Chandras <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 09:14:36 +0000

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 07:37:40AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Guenter,
> 
> [Add Ralf to cc]
> 
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 09:20:36 -0800 Guenter Roeck <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > 
> > Build results:
> > 	total: 121 pass: 109 fail: 12
> > Failed builds:
> > 	mips:defconfig
> > 	mips:allmodconfig
> > 	mips:bcm47xx_defconfig
> > 	mips:bcm63xx_defconfig
> > 	mips:nlm_xlp_defconfig
> > 	mips:ath79_defconfig
> > 	mips:ar7_defconfig
> > 	mips:fuloong2e_defconfig
> > 	mips:e55_defconfig
> > 	mips:cavium_octeon_defconfig
> > 	mips:malta_defconfig
> > 	sparc64:allmodconfig
> > 
> > mips builds are all failing with
> > 
> > Building mips:defconfig ... failed
> > --------------
> > Error log:
> > arch/mips/kernel/genex.S: Assembler messages:
> > arch/mips/kernel/genex.S:128: Error: Bad value (mips64r6) for internal use
> > arch/mips/kernel/genex.S:128: Error: unknown ISA level 64r6
> > 
> > This was introduced by commit 0bf705e94771800 ("MIPS: kernel: genex: Set
> > correct ISA level") which apparently assumes that only mips64r6 is a valid
> > ISA level, though it is obviously not supported on older compilers. This
> > is on top of the other mips r6 related build errors seen yesterday.
> > 
> > I really hope that this is not 3.20 material, given the lack of testing
> > with architectures other than mips r6 or with older compilers.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell                    [email-masked]

This is just a typo I introduced yesterday by mistake. This has been fixed in
the meantime but it did not make it in today's linux-next.

-- 
markos