Re: [Fwd: kernel compilation fails]

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 10:54:43AM +0100, Philippe De Swert wrote:

> Basically 2.4.18 code is too old to compile as is with gcc 3.3.4. The
> assembler code needs to be inlined with a different syntax. Just look at
> similar files to see how it is done.

Not true.  Gcc 3.3 is probably even is the most commonly used compiler
with 2.4-based systems.  Builds with gcc 3.4 will fail for some 2.4
kernel configurations but at the very least throw loads of warnings.

> As a quick hint here is some code to show how it should look like.
> 
> 
>         __asm__(".set\tmips3\n\t"
>                 "wait\n\t"
>                 ".set\tmips0");
> 
> Notice the \n and \t parts. You are probabely missing those.

Actually more and more code it being formatted using tabs instead of the
\t escape sequence for readability.

  Ralf