Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * Florian Lohoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-01-21 15:00]: > > > linux-2.6 version linux-2.6_2.6.24~rc8-1~experimental.2~snapshot.10147 > > > FTBFS on mips: > > > CC [M] drivers/net/niu.o > > > {standard input}: Assembler messages: > > > {standard input}:293: Error: Branch out of range > > > make[6]: *** [drivers/net/niu.o] Error 1 > > > > I believe this is actually a kernel bug. Looking at the preprocessed > > source, I see that it contains some inline assembler: > > > > __asm__ __volatile__( > > " .set mips3 \n" > > "1: " "ll " "%0, %1 # set_bit \n" > > " or %0, %2 \n" > > " " "sc " "%0, %1 \n" > > " beqz %0, 2f \n" > > " .subsection 2 \n" > > "2: b 1b \n" > > " .previous \n" > > > > And the "Branch out of range" error is in that piece of code. > > Ralf/Aurelien, can you please take a look. > > This is caused by the "subsection" trick which breaks for large > sections. The problem is fixed in the latest www.linux-mips.org tree.
Apparently I misremembered, and the problem still exists. Thiemo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]