On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 17:58 -0700, Jeffrey Buell wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 14:40 -0700, Jeffrey Buell wrote: > > > Has anybody compiled the kernel without kernel debugging? > > I've tried with > > > the lastest source (1261) but I still get an undefined reference to > > > irq_ctx_init in function init_IRQ. > > > > > > Jeff > > Absolutely. Always. What steps are you taking? > > > > I made only a few changes to the stock FC4 1261 source: includexen is set in > kernel-2.6.spec, HIGHMEM is turned off in the config, along with some things > I know I don't need (firewire, infrared, Bluetooth, ISDN, reiserfs, laptops), > as well as kernel debugging. Just now I tried commenting out the offending > line (i8259.c:428) and now the kernel builds and boots. > > Another poster (Jaap Hoetmer) gets the same error message from FC3, so this > doesn't appear to be a new issue. Furthermore, he narrowed the problem down > to the 4k/8k stack space flag, which is one of the kernel hacking/debug > flags. Thanks, Jaap, that saved me the trouble of going through all of them > one by one! I'll try this flag by itself to verify. > > David, have you built sucessively with 8k stack? > Oooops. Hit send too fast. Never tried. Furthermore I tend to build minimalistic kernels for the server. SCSI but no firewire, No USB, no sound, nothing generic, etc., etc. My only atypical add is the tarpit module for IPTables. -- Multi-RBL Check: http://www.TQMcube.com/rblcheck.htm Kill Spam at the Source: http://www.TQMcube.com/spam_trap.htm Today's Spam Trap Adds: http://www.TQMcube.com/BlockedToday RBLDNSD HowTo: http://www.TQMcube.com/rbldnsd.htm
