linux-kernel - Re: build failure in Linus' tree with gcc 4.4.3

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Date:	Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:38:18 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: build failure in Linus' tree with gcc 4.4.3

Hi Matt,

On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:01:57 +0000 Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com> wrote:
>
> Looks like the segfault is caused by an unaligned access? How does this
> patch look?

I didn't try it, but it won't work.  PowerPC is big endian, the data you
are copying is little endian ....

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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