[poky] Poky & armv5te

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 15:17 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
> 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.

Ok, thats positive in many ways :)

When you say the kernel crashes hard can you be any more specific about
where in the process its doing that? Any chance its using -Os anywhere
in the kernel build and that is causing the problem?

Cheers,

Richard