SOLVED: Re: Failing kernel build when disabling CONFIG_4KSTACKS

[Jaap Hoetmer]

I have installed a precompiled kernel from Linuxant
and that seems to work good. My card now works well.

I am still puzzled why the kernel failed to build.

Thanks for your comments.

Jaap

--- Jeffrey Buell <jbuell at vmware.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Jonathan, thanks for your comments. 
> > 
> > I have downloaded the latest source of the kernel
> from
> > one of the Fedora ftp mirrors, installed this as
> > described in the Release Notes of Fedora Core 3.
> Then
> > I executed 'make clean' and 'make bzImage', first
> by
> > using the CONFIG_4KSTACKS set (default), which
> > succeeded, and then by disabling this setting,
> after
> > which the build failed with errors mentioned.
> > 
> > It is indeed strange, and I am simply interested
> to
> > understand what is going wrong. Next thing I'd
> like to
> > do is take the latest kernel from kernel.org and
> try
> > to do the same.
> > 
> > The Linuxant Driverloader solution is working,
> that
> > much I did try, but I preferred to do things
> myself.
> > Not for the sake of saving myself $20 for that
> > solution, but to satisfy my own curiosity.
> > 
> > Many thanks,
> > 
> > Jaap
> 
> I verified this problem using FC4, release 1261.  I
> don't actually need 8K
> myself but the point is that, under make menuconfig,
> if kernel debugging is
> turned off then 8K is the default which leads to an
> undefined reference to
> irq_ctx_init in function init_IRQ.  It may not be
> reasonable to expect the
> kernel to build under all combinations of configs,
> but it should build for
> default configs.
> 
> Jeff
> 
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