Building FC4 without kernel debugging

David Cary Hart Fedora at TQMcube.com
Tue Apr 26 01:00:36 UTC 2005


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?
> 
Never tried.
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