Subject: Re: 1.6.1 lack of stability on cats
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
From: Chris Gilbert <chris@dokein.co.uk>
List: port-arm
Date: 02/03/2003 20:26:20
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 11:46:50 +0100
Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:39:21AM +0000, Chris Gilbert wrote:
> 
> > COPTS="-O2 -march=armv4 -mtune=strongarm"
> > 
> > Is this a likely cause, and if so, should we be considering
> > disabling the optimisations for 1.6.1?
> > 
> > Does anyone else running an arm box with 1.6.1 have stability
> > issues?
> 
> I have a PR open about this. It's not clear whether the compiler is
> the culprit or just an innocent messenger, but I made my Shark much
> more stable by running an kernel without the -march= and mtune= parts.

In the random sample of does xsrc build now, the answer is yes it did
without the arch and tune flags, so for as to why I've no idea *sigh*

Anyway at least I got x server for 1.6.1 cats built now 8)

Cheers,
Chris