On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 19:45 +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > I've Cc'ed Ben and linuxppc-dev because I wonder if they're aware > that several options (I got it from LATENCYTOP, but I think LOCKDEP > and FTRACE and some others) are doing a "select FRAME_POINTER", > which forces CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y on PowerPC, even though > FRAME_POINTER is not an option offered on PowerPC. The > resulting kernels appear to run okay, but I was surprised.
Because the option just does nothing for us ? :-) We always have frame pointers on powerpc except in some case for leaf functions. I don't know if the option has any actual effect on the later, but I don't think we have a case where doing either way would break things. Cheers, Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
