Subject: Re: new binutils breaks "tlbie" instruction in kernel?

From: Kumar Gala <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 23:55:40 -0600

Someone should just add some of our asm files into the ppc binutils=20
testsuite, why we cant seem to get a stability on this seems beyond me=20=

:)  Well, something else to add to the ppc kernel janitors list.

- kumar

On Feb 2, 2005, at 11:13 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 12:39 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
>  > The "tlbie" instruction has a bit which may be set to indicate=20
> regular
> > or large page size.=A0 This used to be set via an optional second=20
> parameter.
>  >
> > Apparently some time between binutils versions 2.15.91.0.2 and
> > 2.15.92.0.2 a change went in to make this second parameter =
mandatory,
> > which breaks the kernel ppc code.
>  >
> > What is the recommended way to fix this?=A0 Do all binutils versions
> > understand the second parameter, or will "sufficiently old" versions
> > choke on it?
>
> Wasn't it fixed ?
>
> Ben.
>
>
>
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