linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] i915: fix up a raw 64bit divide

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Date:	Wed, 1 Jul 2009 17:32:35 +0100
From:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
To:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
Cc:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>, Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>,
	dri-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] i915: fix up a raw 64bit divide

On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 09:12:55AM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Wed,  1 Jul 2009 15:20:59 +0100
> Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com> wrote:
> 
> > We are seeing compilation failures on i386 in some environments due
> > to an undefined reference as below:
> > 
> >     ERROR: "__udivdi3" [drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko] undefined!
> > 
> > This is generated due to a raw 64 bit divide in the i915 driver.  Fix
> > up this raw divide.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
> 
> I think building with newer GCCs will prevent this error, but the fix
> looks fine.

Yeah I suspect gcc interactions here, as builds on older userspace were
failing in this way but not so in the very latest karmic userspace.  I
suspect its still correct to avoid these currently.

> Acked-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>

Thanks.

-apw
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