Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262881AbVCDM0T (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2005 07:26:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262884AbVCDMWd (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2005 07:22:33 -0500 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:35854 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262844AbVCDLyq (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2005 06:54:46 -0500 Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 11:54:39 +0000 From: Russell King To: Andrew Morton Cc: davej@redhat.com, torvalds@osdl.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering Message-ID: <20050304115439.F3932@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Morton , davej@redhat.com, torvalds@osdl.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050302230634.A29815@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <42265023.20804@pobox.com> <20050303002733.GH10124@redhat.com> <20050302203812.092f80a0.akpm@osdl.org> <20050304105247.B3932@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050304032632.0a729d11.akpm@osdl.org> <20050304113626.E3932@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050304034410.2ccfba74.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20050304034410.2ccfba74.akpm@osdl.org>; from akpm@osdl.org on Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:44:10AM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2232 Lines: 54 On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:44:10AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Russell King wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:26:32AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Russell King wrote: > > > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 08:38:12PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > Grump. Have all these regressions received the appropriate level of > > > > > visibility on this mailing list? > > > > > > > > Looking at the http://l4x.org/k/ site, it appears that all -mm versions > > > > have broken ARM support with the defconfig, while Linus kernels at least > > > > build fine. > > > > > > It's very much in an arch maintainer's interest to make sure that > > > cross-compilers are easily obtainable. Any hints? > > > > Been trying to achieve that since it's a FAQ on ARM lists. Even gone to > > the extent of setting up a separate mailing list, getting a volunteer to > > track what people want and do the hard work to build them. That was > > about 6 months ago, and I haven't seen any results. > > hm. That's strange. I'd have thought that 99% of the arm embedded > developers cross-build. Yes - I think Dan Kegel's cross-tool gets used a fair bit... > > Anyway, going back to why -mm doesn't work: > > > > arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o(.init.text+0xb64): In function `$a': > > : undefined reference to `rd_size' > > make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 Actually, this highlights another problem - it's ARM binutils again. Jan's cross-binutils for ARM doesn't contain the patches to make the linker resolve addresses to the _correct_ symbol. Don't ask me where they are, but I'm lead to believe that cross-tool knows. This also means that Jan's compile test is rather worthless for ARM - it might be linking a kernel with undefined symbols due to the other assembler bug. > Ah. Fixed, thanks. Thanks. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/