hello,
I was just browsing the kernel sources and
discovered
something strange:
in file linux/arch/ia64/boot/bootloader.c, line
104:
it says "volative" but i guess "volatile" was meant,
I couldn't find that keyword in my gcc documentation
either.
#ifdef CONFIG_ITANIUM_ASTEP_SPECIFIC
asm volative ("nop 0;; nop 0;; nop 0;;"); #endif /* CONFIG_ITANIUM_ASTEP_SPECIFIC */ Please tell me if this is a bug or just forget this mail when I err.
My kernel version is 2.4.0 patched as follows:
1. downloaded and unpacked linux-2.4.0-test11.tar.gz to
/usr/src/linux
2. patched with patch-2.4.0-test12.gz (zcat patch-2.4.0-test12.gz | patch
-p1)
3. patched with patch-2.4.0-prerelease.gz (zcat patch-2.4.0-prerelease.gz |
patch -p1)
4. patched with prerelease-to-final.gz (zcat prerelease-to-final.gz | patch
-p1)
5. patched with linux-2.4.0-reiserfs-3.6.25-patch.gz (zcat
linux-2.4.0-reiserfs-3.6.25-patch.gz | patch -p1)
Kernel was downloaded from http://www.kernel.org, patches were downloaded
from http://www.kernel.org,
ReiserFS patch was downloaded from ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiserfs-for-2.4/
Adrian Glaubitz |