"Tobin C. Harding" <m...@tobin.cc> writes: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 09:38:13PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote: >> Hi Tobin, >> >> "Tobin C. Harding" <m...@tobin.cc> writes: >> > The current (2bfe01e) torvalds git tree fails to build on powerpc64. Build >> > machine >> > is virtualized. >> > >> > - Build error >> > arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c: In function ‘running_clock’: >> > arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c:712:25: error: implicit declaration of function >> > ‘cputime_to_nsecs’ >> > return local_clock() - >> > cputime_to_nsecs(kcpustat_this_cpu->cpustat[CPUTIME_STEAL]); >> > ^ >> ... >> > >> > If you think this can be fixed with the *little* kernel dev knowledge >> > I have please point me at a starting place and I will dig into it. >> >> Thanks for trying to fix it. >> >> You got unlucky and pulled Linus' tree just after a cleanup series was >> merged, but before all the bugs had been shaken out. > > Au contraire, I felt lucky to have bumped into a bug. I would like to > find more :)
Hah, well, we have *plenty* :) I keep a rough list of TODO/FIXME type things on github: https://github.com/linuxppc/linux/issues/ If there's anything there that you want to have a go at please feel free. If you have questions you can either comment on the issues or mail me and/or this list. cheers