[meta-freescale] [CRITICAL] Boards failing to build with GCC 5.2 - Kernel patches are needed

[Ian Coolidge]

Those patches worked for us. Thanks Otavio!

Sent in a patch to update meta-fsl-arm-extra for Boundary Device's kernel
for Jethro.

Thanks!
Ian Coolidge

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Otavio Salvador <
otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br> wrote:

> Hello folks,
>
> I have been working at stabilizing the core BSP boards (Freescale
> reference boards) for Yocto Project 2.0 release - jethro. As most of
> you are aware one of the changes for this release is the GCC version
> update.
>
> The vendors needing to check the boards are:
>
> Boundary Devices
> CompuLab
> Congatec
> Crystalfontz
> DENX
> Device Solutions
> Phytec
> SolidRun
> Wandboard.org
>
> These vendors are responsible for one, or more, of the following boards:
>
> imx6qsabrelite (Boundary Devices i.MX6Q SABRE Lite)
> nitrogen6sx (Boundary Devices Nitrogen6SX)
> nitrogen6x (Boundary Devices Nitrogen6X)
> nitrogen6x-lite (Boundary Devices Nitrogen6X Lite)
> cm-fx6 (CompuLab CM-FX6)
> cgtqmx6 (Congatec Qmx6)
> cfa10036 (Crystalfontz CFA-10036)
> cfa10037 (Crystalfontz CFA-10037)
> cfa10049 (Crystalfontz CFA-10049)
> cfa10055 (Crystalfontz CFA-10055)
> cfa10056 (Crystalfontz CFA-10056)
> cfa10057 (Crystalfontz CFA-10057)
> cfa10058 (Crystalfontz CFA-10058)
> quartz (Device Solutions Quartz Vybrid Development Kit)
> ventana (i.MX6Q/DL Ventana Platform)
> pcl052 (Phytec Cosmic Vybrid Development Kit)
> pcm052 (Phytec phyCORE Vybrid Development Kit)
> cubox-i (SolidRun CuBox-i and HummingBoard)
> wandboard (Wandboard i.MX6 Wandboard Quad/Dual/Solo)
> m28evk (DENX M28 SoM Evaluation Kit)
> m53evk (DENX M53 SoM Evaluation Kit)
>
> For i.MX6 based boards, the linux-fslc-mx6 kernel has the patches
> applied as it is updated with the Linux 3.14 stable releases.
> Following patches are worth checking:
>
>  - allow the Vivante GPU kernel module to work:
>
> https://github.com/Freescale/linux-fslc/commit/22f692548037e39809c32759b5600ee066ef59e9.patch
>
>  - GCC 5.2 fixes :
>
> https://github.com/Freescale/linux-fslc/commit/aeea3592a13bf12861943e44fc48f1f270941f8d.patch
>
> https://github.com/Freescale/linux-fslc/commit/76ae03828756bac2c1fa2c7eff7485e5f815dbdb.patch
>
> For other SoCs the linux-fslc 4.1 branch seems to be a good option to
> avoid the local recipe and this maintenance burden.
>
> WARNING: I will REMOVE boards which are kept broken so please respond
> to this email with a plan for fixing it.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> --
> Otavio Salvador                             O.S. Systems
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