Matt's schedule for this week
Craig Dooley
craig at xlnx-x.net
Wed Nov 12 05:10:36 PST 2003
With the kernel I'm running using 3.3.2, the only issues I've found so far are
module loading and debugging. Our gdb is too old to understand kernel.debug I
think, and the module code needs to be updated. Is it worth looking at gdb
6.0? I remember the FreeBSD people waiting on it for full amd64 support.
Also, is there still support for the 5.x kernel and modules in /boot or was
that changed instead of added to?
-Craig
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 02:22, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :Do you foresee any issues for which we wouldn't want to make gcc 3.x
> :default for everything ? If we are going to look at going ahead with a
> :newer gcc(as we should), I think we should go ahead and put forth the
> :effort to make everything compile cleanly under it. I couldn't see the
> :actual time required to be more than 3 or 4 days, this including the
> :userland.
> :
> :-DR
>
> The timeline is going to be at least a month, maybe two, before
> gcc 3.x can become the default. There are a lot of issues when making
> any major compiler upgrade not the least of which being that even after
> one has dotted all the I's and crossed all the T's, the compiler could
> still have something in its guts that throws someone for a loop.
>
> We have the advantage of a slightly older 3.x in 5.x which we can
> compare against the base to see what needs to be patched up, but I am still
> going to be very careful.
>
> -Matt
> Matthew Dillon
> <dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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