Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the amdgpu tree

[Alex Deucher]

On Thu, May 5, 2022 at 2:12 PM Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Stephen,
>
> On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 07:47:17PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > After merging the amdgpu tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> > allyesconfig) failed like this:
> >
>
> <snip long error message>
>
> >
> > Caused by commit
> >
> >   028c3fb37e70 ("drm/amdgpu/mes11: initiate mes v11 support")
> >
> > This build has __BIG_ENDIAN set.
> >
> > I have applied the following patch for today.
> >
> > From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Thu, 5 May 2022 19:14:25 +1000
> > Subject: [PATCH] mark CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU as depending on CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
> > index e88c497fa010..2aaa9ef1168d 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
> > @@ -244,6 +244,7 @@ source "drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/Kconfig"
> >  config DRM_AMDGPU
> >       tristate "AMD GPU"
> >       depends on DRM && PCI && MMU
> > +     depends on CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
> >       select FW_LOADER
> >       select DRM_DISPLAY_DP_HELPER
> >       select DRM_DISPLAY_HDMI_HELPER
> > --
> > 2.35.1
>
> This fixup makes CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU unselectable on any architecture that
> does not have CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN, such as x86_64. I was rather
> surprised when my AMD test system did not reach the login screen and
> there were no error messages in dmesg, only to find that
> CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU had disappeared from my build.
>
> If this is not fixed by the time you do next-20220506, would you
> consider swapping the logic like so? This should allow all implicitly
> little endian architectures to work (at least, I tested it with x86_64),
> while preventing errors for CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN configurations.

This is fixed.  Will push out a new branch shortly.

Alex

>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
> index 2aaa9ef1168d..a57843733a96 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/Kconfig
> @@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ source "drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/Kconfig"
>  config DRM_AMDGPU
>         tristate "AMD GPU"
>         depends on DRM && PCI && MMU
> -       depends on CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
> +       depends on !CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
>         select FW_LOADER
>         select DRM_DISPLAY_DP_HELPER
>         select DRM_DISPLAY_HDMI_HELPER