Re: build error on powerpc for 2.6.23-rc1-mm2

On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 13:52:05 +0530 Rishikesh K Rajak [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi Andrew,

I am getting following error on powerpc almost for allyesconfig,
allmodconfig.

Error produced:

PowerPC: allmodconfig,allyesconfig

  CC      arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_64.o
/home/risrajak/TEST2/TEST/linux/CurrentTest/23-rc1-mm2-testing/linux-2.6.23-rc1/arch/powerpc/lib/copyuser_64.S:
 Assembler messages:
/home/risrajak/TEST2/TEST/linux/CurrentTest/23-rc1-mm2-testing/linux-2.6.23-rc1/arch/powerpc/lib/copyuser_64.S:27:
 Error: Unrecognized opcode: `mtocrf'
/home/risrajak/TEST2/TEST/linux/CurrentTest/23-rc1-mm2-testing/linux-2.6.23-rc1/arch/powerpc/lib/copyuser_64.S:138:
 Error: Unrecognized opcode: `mtocrf'
/home/risrajak/TEST2/TEST/linux/CurrentTest/23-rc1-mm2-testing/linux-2.6.23-rc1/arch/powerpc/lib/copyuser_64.S:153:
 Error: Unrecognized opcode: `mtocrf'
/home/risrajak/TEST2/TEST/linux/CurrentTest/23-rc1-mm2-testing/linux-2.6.23-rc1/arch/powerpc/lib/memcpy_64.S:
 Assembler messages:
/home/risrajak/TEST2/TEST/linux/CurrentTest/23-rc1-mm2-testing/linux-2.6.23-rc1/arch/powerpc/lib/memcpy_64.S:15:
 Error: Unrecognized opcode: `mtocrf'
/home/risrajak/TEST2/TEST/linux/CurrentTest/23-rc1-mm2-testing/linux-2.6.23-rc1/arch/powerpc/lib/memcpy_64.S:131:
 Error: Unrecognized opcode: `mtocrf'
/home/risrajak/TEST2/TEST/linux/CurrentTest/23-rc1-mm2-testing/linux-2.6.23-rc1/arch/powerpc/lib/memcpy_64.S:146:
 Error: Unrecognized opcode: `mtocrf'
make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/lib/memcpy_64.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
  CC      arch/powerpc/sysdev/mpic_u3msi.o
make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/lib/copyuser_64.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/lib] Error 2

Presumably, disabling CONFIG_POWER4_ONLY would fix that.

It could be that your toolchain is insufficiently recent.  Which
version of binutils are you using?