On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 01:56:06AM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 01:52:14PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > > These MIPS builds have been failing in kernelci ever since MIPS was > > added. This means that we've got a constant level of noise in the > > results which makes them less useful for everyone - people get used to > > ignoring errors. Is there any plan to get these fixed? > I had to "bisect" binutils versions to hit the allnoconfig and tinyconfig > build issues. Turns out it's a problem specific to binutils 2.25 which > when generating 32 bit ELF does not permit the use of 64 bit constants, > not even when explicitly to the 64 bit instruction set, for example: > .set mips3 > dli $1, 0x9000000080000000 > The only fix I was able to find that will work with all binutils, is > open coding the dli macro instruction as > li $1, 0x9000 > dsll $1, $1, 48 > Which is pretty much what the assembler should have generated from the dli > anyway. Thanks - someone should probably tell the purpl people, it's their toolchain we're currently using. We did have a bit of a look yesterday for other prebuilt ones but didn't come up with anything so I guess a lot of people are going to be using that one.
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