[poky] GCC 4.6.0 on ARM?

Gary Thomas gary at mlbassoc.com
Mon May 2 05:57:16 PDT 2011


On 04/30/2011 04:10 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Khem Raj<raj.khem at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Gary Thomas<gary at mlbassoc.com>  wrote:
>>> I got my OMAP target to build with GCC-4.6.0 using the latest
>>> Poky tree after a fresh rebuild.  Sadly, the Linux kernel (2.6.37.3)
>>> does not run correctly when built with this compiler.  It
>>> fails when enumerating the USB bus :-(
>>>
>>> Are there known issues with the Linux kernel on ARM and GCC-4.6?
>>>
>>
>> There has been fixes on top of 4.6.0 the one we have right now is vanilla
>> 4.6.0 release. I plan to add second set of patches but you have to dig a bit
>> more to identify the problem
>>
>
> I have some updates for gcc 4.6.0
> they are staged in
>
> http://git.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded-core-contrib/log/?h=kraj/gcc-4.6
>
> (top 3 patches)
>
> Please test them out and if you are lucky
> your problem might be fixed too.
>
> All, please try these patches and provide any feedback

I was able to build my kernel (ARM OMAP/3530 based) using this, but
the USB still doesn't work, so no improvement, sorry.

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