Re: Bug#885245: linux: FTBFS on powerpcspe: sstep.c: ptesync unrecognized

to get the latest kernel to compile on a powermac g5 takes removing the power8 instructions from sstep.c it will compile with -mpower8 but then wont boot if you dont get rid of the instructions

On Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 1:11 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

Hi!

On 12/26/17 04:32, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> Builds of linux for powerpcspe (admittedly not a release architecture)
> have been failing lately:
>
> {standard input}: Assembler messages:
> {standard input}:5854: Error: unrecognized opcode: `ptesync'
> /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/scripts/Makefile.build:319: recipe for target 'arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.o' failed
> make[6]: *** [arch/powerpc/lib/sstep.o] Error 1

Funny, it seems that this particular issue is now uncovering on powerpc [1] and
ppc64 [2] as well after this change [3] in the GNU Assembler.

Adrian

> [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=linux&arch=powerpc&ver=5.15.15-1&stamp=1642579068&raw=0
> [2] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=linux&arch=ppc64&ver=5.15.15-1&stamp=1642578946&raw=0
> [3] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=b25f942e18d6ecd7ec3e2d2e9930eb4f996c258a

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