Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:30:38 +0200 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> To: "Remorque" <odhiambo@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: Kernel compile fails Message-ID: <49C667AE.2090806@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <991123400903220917n3303e10bpe1233dc97e75c168@mail.gmail.com> References: <991123400903220753o6909d0ban5ef235bacf2b3ab1@mail.gmail.com> <200903220823.56243.kstewart@owt.com> <991123400903220843x78bc4cd3ta494dde23d5762ea@mail.gmail.com> <49C66194.1040301@gmail.com> <991123400903220917n3303e10bpe1233dc97e75c168@mail.gmail.com>
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"Remorque" wrote: > > > > > > If you csup'd source as you say above, you are now on 7-STABLE. > There have been some changes in the atheros driver, and I noticed your > build stopped there. > > Look at the new GENERIC conf file: > > device ath # Atheros pci/cardbus NIC's > device ath_hal # Atheros HAL (Hardware Access Layer) > options AH_SUPPORT_AR5416 # enable AR5416 tx/rx > descriptors > device ath_rate_sample # SampleRate tx rate control for ath > > If your custom configuration file comes from editing a 7.0-RELEASE > e.g. > GENERIC, it will fail. Use the newer GENERIC as a starting point, or > simply replace the atheros entries with the ones above. > > > I used the 7.1 DVD to install, not 7.0. > From my observation (having gone thro 5 `make kernel` attempts now) is > that the failure is quite random. > I am not sure what is happening actually. > If you used the standard-supfile to csup src, you are still on 7.1-RELEASE+patches and this should not happen. If you used the stable-supfile for src, then the above still stands. Anyway, if it stops at different places every time, it may indicate a hardware failure of some sort (e.g. RAM).
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