On Sun, 09 Feb 2003 18:33:58 +0000
Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@buzzard.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

> > 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).

Hmmm, just wondering why, certainly it sounds like we should get it
pulled up ASAP.  I'll put a pullup request in.  

Chris