Re: Can't compile longson kernels

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:24:57AM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> The warning is not bogus, and there's no real error either.
> The loongson jump fix does really replace a jump instruction with
> multiple instructions that ends with a jump. This hack in our local source
> is because we (NetBSD) don't want the warning in this specific case
> (but we do want it if other macros cause one instruction to
> be remplaced by multiple instructions). The alternatives are to
> remove -mfix-loongson2f-jump (but then the hardware may hang) or
> remove --fatal-warnings (but then we don't get errors when other
> macros may cause real issues).

Yes, of course. And that all is why this is a valid fix and appropriate
for upstream inclusion, IMHO.

To cite from info gas:

`as' should never give a warning or error message when assembling
compiler output.


But in this case, it does.


Martin