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SubjectRe: xtensa port maintenance
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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

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds


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