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 -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
