> 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)

I've just built a 1.6.1_RC1 kernel with strongarm optimizations enabled, 
but with bcopyinout.S pulled up to revision 1.6 and the kernel seems fine 
(sufficient to completely bootstrap and regtest gcc without any untoward 
problems).

R.