[meta-intel] Compiling linux-intel-rt on thud release

[Mittal, Anuj]

Can you check if including this patch fixes the issue:


https://github.com/intel/linux-intel-lts/commit/941bfd125c78713649eefb338e52300585fd6ec7

This is only in 4.9/yocto/base and not in -rt since that one is still
at 4.9.84.

On Wed, 2018-11-28 at 17:45 -0800, Donovan Sydow wrote:
> Sorry this was 4.9 version, we're stuck on that due to 4.14 not
> having upboard support. linux-intel worked just fine. 
> 
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 3:56 PM Mittal, Anuj <anuj.mittal at intel.com>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2018-11-28 at 14:17 -0800, Donovan Sydow wrote:
> > > Looking for help compiling the thud release of linux-intel-rt.
> > > 
> > > I receive the following error message:
> > > |   RELOCS  arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.relocs
> > > | Unsupported relocation type: R_X86_64_PLT32 (4)
> > > | /home/build/yocto/build/tmp/work-shared/up-board/kernel-
> > > source/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile:118: recipe for target
> > > 'arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.relocs' failed
> > > | make[4]: *** [arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.relocs] Error 1
> > > | make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> > > | /home/build/yocto/build/tmp/work-shared/up-board/kernel-
> > > source/arch/x86/boot/Makefile:112: recipe for target
> > > 'arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux' failed
> > > 
> > 
> > Which kernel version is this for and can you build linux-intel
> > kernel?
> > 
> > I can't reproduce this error on thud or master that is currently
> > using
> > 4.14.78. I am guessing that this commit should have fixed this:
> > 
> > 
> > 
https://github.com/intel/linux-intel-lts/commit/a971fc44c94b6e20f492a93e3e6e5f1735d8afb8
> > 
> > Do you have a local configuration or a bbappend that is over-riding
> > kernel srcrev?
> > 
> > > Which seems to be related to the update to binutils 2.31. This
> > > doesn't occur with sumo, nor did it happen with master branches
> > from
> > > about mid october.
> > 
> > Would you be able to bisect and see what is causing the problem?
> > binutils was upgraded to 2.31 back in July.
> > 
> > > Hoping there is a fix to this compatibility issue that just isn't
> > > obvious, without having to say downgrade all the binutils
> > packages on
> > > the thud release.  
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Anuj
> 
>