From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Nov 11 10:11:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3516A37B401; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 10:11:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63F3143E4A; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 10:11:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA20311; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 13:11:15 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id gABIAjX48118; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 13:10:45 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15823.62117.919469.410057@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 13:10:45 -0500 (EST) To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: John Baldwin , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ev4/5/6 issue ? In-Reply-To: <57666.1037037902@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <57666.1037037902@critter.freebsd.dk> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > >make CPUTYPE="" all > > I'm not convinced that works for a kernel actually. sys/conf/kern.mk > contains: > > .if ${MACHINE_ARCH} == "alpha" > CFLAGS+= -mno-fp-regs -ffixed-8 -Wa,-mev6 > .endif > This should just affect what gas will accept, not what gcc generates. It read '-mev56' for the entire history of FreeBSD/alpha until it was upgraded 2 months ago. It has caused zero problems in the last 3 years. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message