[poky] Poky & armv5te

[Gary Thomas]

On 02/02/2011 11:27 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 02/02/2011 11:00 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
>> On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 09:42 -0800, Darren Hart wrote:
>>> On 02/02/2011 09:24 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>>> I'd like to use Poky with my OMAP-L138 which is armv5te
>>>> Sadly today, this just isn't a go because of GCC issues.
>>>> I've tried all the combinations which are in the trees
>>>> (main& contrib) with no luck:
>>>> * 4.3.3 - fails to build GCC
>>>> * 4.5.1 - everything builds but kernel crashes
>>>> * 4.5.2 - fails to build GCC
>>>>
>>>> Am I totally out of luck?
>>>
>>> What are you running into? I've recently backported some changes in
>>> support of the Beagleboard (armv7-a) which were necessary to build with
>>> 4.5.1 and our 2.21 binutils.
>>
>> Those wouldn't affect armv5. What puzzles me is that qemuarm is
>> effectively an armv5 like system and those do build and boot in qemu.
>>
>> When you managed images above for 4.5.1 did you try using a known good
>> kernel with our userspace? I'm wondering if we can narrow it to a kernel
>> issue?
>
> Not sure I got that far, but I'll check it out.

A simple test indicates that the user-space tools built in Poky
do run fine on this hardware when built with GCC/4.5.1 and BINUTILS/2.21
It's only the kernel that crashes hard with this combo.

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