Re: xtensa port maintenance

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Max,

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Chris Zankel <chris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On 08/06/2012 04:38 PM, Max Filippov wrote:
>>>> AFAIK xtensa linux port is currently in bad shape: it doesn't work in the
>>>> mainline, it fails to build in the linux-next. The latest working kernels
>>>> for
>>>> xtensa are 2.6.29...31 trees hosted at the git.linux-xtensa.org.
>>>
>>> I wouldn't say it's in bad shape, I just built an vmlinux image from the
>>> latest tree (3.6.0-rc1), but it might not be very stable. One of the major
>>> issues is not really the kernel but  there's actually no way to build a
>>> fairly recent version of the toolchain. I have been using a somewhat more
>>> recent buildroot version than what is on xtensa-linux.org, but even that
>>> version of buildroot is rather old now and needed a few patches.
>>
>> Are the errors
>>
>> | dangerous relocation: l32r: literal placed after use: .literal.unlikely
>> (http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/6845615/)
>>
>> preventing linking of vmlinux toolchain issues?
>
> They may be considered as such (toolchain now adds *.unlikely sections which
> was not the case previously), or may not, depending on what one would expect
> from the toolchain. I have a fix for that issue:
> https://github.com/jcmvbkbc/linux-xtensa/commit/edd7c14132388d5c09c57cf12c76c6631a1e0277

Thanks, that indeed fixes the link issue for me!

BTW, how do you export a "commitdiff" from the github web interface?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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