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GCC 5

Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2016 10:00 pm
by mechanic
Just a first try. This one used the 4.7-5 patch.

Aug 28 16:05:51 AmigaOneX1000 kernel: htab_hash_mask = 0x3ffff
Aug 28 16:05:51 AmigaOneX1000 kernel: -----------------------------------------------------
Aug 28 16:05:51 AmigaOneX1000 kernel: Linux version 4.7.1_gcc5 (len@AmigaOneX1000) (gcc version 5.4.1 20160803 (Debian 5.4.1-1) ) #3 SMP Sun Aug 28 15:18:49 EDT 2016
Aug 28 16:05:51 AmigaOneX1000 kernel: Found PA-PXP PCI host bridge.
Aug 28 16:05:51 AmigaOneX1000 kernel: PCI host bridge /pxp@0,e0000000 (primary) ranges:
Aug 28 16:05:51 AmigaOneX1000 kernel: IO 0x00000000fc800000..0x00000000fcffffff -> 0x0000000000000000
Aug 28 16:05:51 AmigaOneX1000 kernel: Initialised io_base_virt 0xd000080000000000 _IO_BASE 0xd000080000000000
Aug 28 16:05:51 AmigaOneX1000 kernel: MEM 0x0000000080000000..0x00000000e00fffff -> 0x0000000080000000
Aug 28 16:05:51 AmigaOneX1000 kernel: MEM 0x00000000fd800000..0x00000000fd800fff -> 0x00000000fd800000
Aug 28 16:05:51 AmigaOneX1000 kernel: MEM 0x0000080000000000..0x00000bffffffffff -> 0x0000080000000000
Aug 28 16:05:51 AmigaOneX1000 kernel: Zone ranges:
Aug 28 16:05:51 AmigaOneX1000 kernel: DMA [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000007fffffff]
Aug

Yup! It boots. More to do yet.

Re: GCC 5

Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2016 3:42 pm
by mechanic
It's a good morning here.

I rebuilt 4.7.2 with Darrens 4.8 patch today using gcc5 in debian-stretch and everything is working great. I also selected optimize_for_performance and things do seem quicker. Time will tell.

Re: GCC 5

Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2016 6:08 pm
by xeno74
mechanic wrote:I also selected optimize_for_performance and things do seem quicker.
That sounds interesting. Can I enable it in the kernel config?

Re: GCC 5

Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2016 8:00 pm
by mechanic
xeno74 wrote:
mechanic wrote:I also selected optimize_for_performance and things do seem quicker.
That sounds interesting. Can I enable it in the kernel config?
Yes.

It's under General Setup a little below Namespace support.

I have not run into anything funny going on with it active (yet).