Re: building 2.6.x kernel on Athlon

[Jules Dubois <0v63ukx02@sneakemail.com>]

On Tuesday 12 July 2005 15:36, linux <linux@networkingnewsletter.org.uk>
(<[🔎] 6.2.0.14.0.20050712223052.01f5a360@mail.rbgi.net>) wrote:

> I was wondering if anybody has successfully built a 2.6.x kernel on an
> Athlon chip?

Yes, I built one from Debian's 2.6.11-7 sources about three weeks ago, on
and for my Athlon.  Since that time, a GCC upgrade has made GCC 4.0 the
default compiler -- the symlink in /usr/bin is dated July 9.

> fakeroot make-kpkg --append_to_version -486 --initrd --revision=whatEver
> kernel_images

Please: This is an invalid command line for make-kpkg.  Providing the exact
command which fails may be essential to diagnosis.

> pointer targets in passing argument 1 of 'use_config' differ in signedness

Providing the exact and complete set of error messages may be essential to
diagnosis.

There are a large number of warnings which appear early in the make-kpkg
process.  They're generated by GCC 4.0, but not GCC 3.3.  I changed these
lines in /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.11/Makefile

  HOSTCC          = gcc
  HOSTCXX         = g++

to read

  HOSTCC          = gcc-3.3
  HOSTCXX         = g++-3.3

I configured the kernel to include "Multi-Tech multiport card support
(EXPERIMENTAL)", and then ran

  make-kpkg kernel_image

and the initial warnings went away.

>    CC [M]  drivers/char/isicom.o
> drivers/char/isicom.c:154: error: array type has incomplete element type
> drivers/char/isicom.c:155: error: array type has incomplete element type
> make[3]: *** [drivers/char/isicom.o] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [drivers/char] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [drivers] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.11'
> make: *** [stamp-build] Error 2

The error message above don't go away.  Line 154 references a type,
'isi_board', which doesn't appear to be defined anywhere.  Both GCC 3.3 and
GCC 4.0 stop on this error; if I'm correct that isi_board isn't defined,
it's obviously an unrecoverable failure.

> Any ideas on what I've done wrong?

Sorry, no.  Near the top of drivers/char/isicom.c, there is a message:

   *      To use this driver you also need the support package. You
   *      can find this in RPM format on
   *              ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan

Have you tried this?  (I have no clue what's in the package.)