On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 01:14:41PM -0500, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > >First, there's something wrong with "make ip32_defconfig" which generate > >config file with "Kernel code model = 64-bit kernel" (MIPS64=y) but > >doesn't preselect "Use 64-bit ELF format for building" (BUILD_ELF64=n) > >doing so, "make" quickly generates an error: > > O2 doesn't use 64-bit ELF format. You have to use o64. See the > arch/mips/Makefile portion of http://dev.gentoo.org/~geoman/cvs.diff for > the proper changes. I'm willing to bet a lot of your problems will go > away if you stop using ELF64. Such a kernel will boot, but it never > quite works right. Not only that, but 64-bit kernels have had some > major problems in 2.6.11 so far that I'm not sure Ralf has completely > fixed just yet. Last I knew swap still didn't work, so I bet that is > where your swap problem is coming from. I fixed that also but it's still not stable. As a test I did rebuild e2fsutils and it did panic after a while. So midnight oil to the rescue ... Ralf
