> So the point is, our current 2.6.24 kernel is safe. I can *not* confirm this. Just some days ago, I compiled hardened-sources-2.6.24 (which uses genpatches-2.6.24-5; current gentoo-sources uses genpatches-2.6.24-6, but the difference is obviously not important here [it involves just an #include for some exotic hardwar]).
Result: Compiles fine with gcc-4.3 on x86 but dies immediately at boot (before printing anything) unless acpi=off is used. (And just to be sure, I disabled every acpi feature except "general" acpi support - same result). It is certainly a compiler problem, because with gcc-4.2 exactly the same kernel configuration (and even on amd64 with gcc-4.3 and analogous configuration) has no problem. -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
