Bug 57680

Summary: Kernel build with Athlon config fails with undefined references
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: P. Beltrani <echo>
Component: kernelAssignee: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description P. Beltrani 2001-12-18 20:48:05 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Attempts to build from kernel-source-2.4.9-13.i386.rpm using the supplied
config file: configs/kernel-2.4.9-athlon.config fail with multiple
undefined references
e.g.:create_bounce, kmap_high, kunmap_high, mmx_clear_page, mmx_copy_page,
_mmx_memcpy, noathlon, pkmap_page_table, rwsem_down_read_failed,
rwsem_down_write_failed, rwsem_wake are ALL undefined as far as the build
process is concerned



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. cd /usr/src/
2. rpm -e kernel-source
3. rm -rf /usr/src/linux-2.4.9-13
4. rpm -ivh kernel-source-2.4.9-13.i386.rpm
5. cd /usr/src/linux-2.4
6. cp configs/kernel-2.4.9-athlon.config .config
7. make dep
8. make bzImage


Actual Results:  Kernel fails to build with errors such as:
arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o(.text+0x111): undefined reference to `_mmx_memcpy'

See the attached file for a full listing of the output from "make bzImage"


Expected Results:  Expected a nice bzImage of the kernel for an athlon
processor.

Additional info:
Comment 1 P. Beltrani 2001-12-18 20:48:52 UTC 
Created attachment 40967 [details]
output from "make bzImage"
Comment 2 Arjan van de Ven 2001-12-18 20:54:20 UTC 
Looks like you missed 'make oldconfig' to actually activate the changes to
.config (and technically you also need to run 'make mrproper' very first)

Note that if you don't change the .config, we also ship binaries compiled with
it....
Comment 3 P. Beltrani 2001-12-19 16:24:59 UTC 
Thanks for the follow up.

There is nothing more pleasant than making an error in public. 'make oldconfig'
resolved the build problem. The status can be changed to "not a bug".

Re: the binaries compiled with configs/kernel-2.4.9-athlon.config
I assume this config was used to create: kernel-2.4.9-13.athlon.rpm

My main asus/athlon system is so unstable using this package that is unusable
for any real work. (It regularly dies with:  Unable to handle kernel paging
request at virtual address ...)  That's what prompted me start working with
compiling my own.
Comment 4 Arjan van de Ven 2001-12-19 18:17:27 UTC 
The following might be worth a shot:
http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/testkernels

it has at least one workaround for a bug in some athlon bioses....