Re: 2.3 and ami_int3

[Michel <dae...@st...>]

Jouko Pynnonen wrote:

> > > > It still doesn`t boot with pm2fb here, I get tons of
> > > > `amiga_disable_irq: trying to disable Amiga auto IRQ 3` messages.
> > >
> > > This shouldn`t happen anymore with my latest cvs changes (at least it
> > > went away for me... :) ), IMO it was a reentrancy problem for shared
> > > interrupts.
> >
> > I still have the problem, whether I build amifb in the kernel, as a
> > module or not at all.
> 
> I have the same problem but also another one with include/asm/atomic.h:
> When compiling 2.3 from the CVS, i started getting errors with many
> files in kernel/. I'm at work and don't have the actual error message
> here but it was something like "protected or fixed register used, a bug
> in the compiler or impossible asm clauses".

What compiler are you using? I use gcc 2.95.2.


> The problem seemed to be the inlined functions (atomic_inc, atomic_dec, ...)
> in include/asm/atomic.h. The errors went away when i #if 0'ed away the
> inlined functions and re-enabled the old ones in  arch/ppc/kernel/misc.S.
> Since no-one else has mentioned this, it might be 603e specific?

I also have a 603e and haven't seen it. Shouldn't matter anyway as gcc
normally doesn't produce processor-specific code.


> After that change it compiled ok but the kernel freezes on boot with those
> amiga_disable_irq messages... I didn't look at it further yet.

Welcome to the club :-/


Michel


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