On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:47 -0800, "David Daney" <ddaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > myuboot@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I got a link error when compiling 2 loadable kernel modules - > > "endianness incompatible with that of the selected emulation". > > > > But both kernel and the kernel modules of error are in big endian. I > > don't know what I should check or fix. Any suggestions? I checked the > > endianess of the kernel by checking the elf header of vmlinux file, is > > that the right way to do it? > > > > Below are the error info and the readelf output, showing both the kernel > > and a kernel module are in big endian. > > Thanks for your help. Andrew > > > > 1) error log > > make -C /home/root123/sources/kernel/linux > > CROSS_COMPILE=""/home/root123/sources/gcc3.4.3-be"/bin/mips-linux-" > > M=/home/root123/sources/sdk/platform/src/linux/mxp/src modules > > > > LD [M] /home/root123/sources/sdk/platform/src/linux/mxp/src/mxpmod.o > > /home/root123/sources/gcc3.4.3-be/bin/mips-linux-ld: > > /home/root123/sources/sdk/platform/src/linux/mxp/src/mmxpcore.o: > > compiled for a big endian system and target is little endian > > /home/root123/sources/gcc3.4.3-be/bin/mips-linux-ld: > > /home/root123/sources/sdk/platform/src/linux/mxp/src/mmxpcore.o: > > endianness incompatible with that of the selected emulation > > /home/root123/sources/gcc3.4.3-be/bin/mips-linux-ld: failed to merge > > target specific data of file > > /home/root123/sources/sdk/platform/src/linux/mxp/src/mmxpcore.o > > make[13]: *** > > [/home/root123/sources/sdk/platform/src/linux/mxp/src/mxpmod.o] Error 1 > > > > Looks like a toolchain bug/configuration-problem. Hard to tell though > as you didn't pass 'V=1' on the make invocation line. > > David Daney With the V=1 option suggested, I found the culprit is this "-m elf32ltsmip". It is working now. Thanks. Andrew
