Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Aug 2012 13:36:24 +0200 | Subject | Re: xtensa port maintenance | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> |
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Hi Chris,
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> 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?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
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