On 03/07/18 12:25, James Hogan wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 12:11:41PM -0800, Frank Rowand wrote: >> I initially misread the patch description (and imagined an entirely >> different problem). >> >> >> On 03/07/18 06:06, James Hogan wrote: >>> On dtb files which contain hyphens, the dt_S_dtb command to build the> dtb.S files (which allow DTB files to be built into the kernel) results> in errors like the following:> > bcm3368-netgear-cvg834g.dtb.S: Assembler messages:> bcm3368-netgear-cvg834g.dtb.S:5: Error: : no such section> bcm3368-netgear-cvg834g.dtb.S:5: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `-'> bcm3368-netgear-cvg834g.dtb.S:6: Error: unrecognized opcode `__dtb_bcm3368-netgear-cvg834g_begin:'> bcm3368-netgear-cvg834g.dtb.S:8: Error: unrecognized opcode `__dtb_bcm3368-netgear-cvg834g_end:'> bcm3368-netgear-cvg834g.dtb.S:9: Error: : no such section> bcm3368-netgear-cvg834g.dtb.S:9: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `-' >> Please replace the following section: >> >>> This is due to the hyphen being used in symbol names. Replace all >>> hyphens >>> with underscores in the dt_S_dtb command to avoid this problem. >>> >>> Quite a lot of dts files have hyphens, but its only a problem on MIPS >>> where such files can be built into the kernel. For example when >>> CONFIG_DT_NETGEAR_CVG834G=y, or on BMIPS kernels when the dtbs target is >>> used (in the latter case it admitedly shouldn't really build all the >>> dtb.o files, but thats a separate issue). >> >> with: >> >> cmd_dt_S_dtb constructs the assembly source to incorporate a devicetree >> FDT (that is, the .dtb file) as binary data in the kernel image. >> This assembly source contains labels before and after the binary data. >> The label names incorporate the file name of the corresponding .dtb >> file. Hyphens are not legal characters in labels, so transform all >> hyphens from the file name to underscores when constructing the labels. > > Thanks, that is clearer. > > I'll keep the paragraph about MIPS and the example configuration though, > as I think its important information to reproduce the problem, and to > justify why it wouldn't be appropriate to just rename the files (which > was my first reaction). Other than the part that says "its only a problem on MIPS". That is pedantically correct because no other architecture (that I am aware of, not that I searched) currently has a devicetree source file name with a hyphen in it, where that file is compiled into the kernel as an asm file. But it is potentially a problem on any architecture to it is misleading to label it as MIPS only. > >> Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@xxxxxxxxx> > > Thanks > James >