Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754450Ab2HGL4O (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2012 07:56:14 -0400 Received: from mail-gh0-f174.google.com ([209.85.160.174]:38652 "EHLO mail-gh0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751887Ab2HGL4M (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2012 07:56:12 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <50205592.1030205@gmail.com> <5020AA5B.4080407@zankel.net> Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 15:56:11 +0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: xtensa port maintenance From: Max Filippov To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Chris Zankel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Greg KH , Stephen Rothwell , Marc Gauthier , Kirill Krinkin Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1669 Lines: 37 On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hi Chris, > > On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Chris Zankel wrote: >> On 08/06/2012 04:38 PM, Max Filippov wrote: >>> AFAIK xtensa linux port is currently in bad shape: it doesn't work in the >>> mainline, it fails to build in the linux-next. The latest working kernels >>> for >>> xtensa are 2.6.29...31 trees hosted at the git.linux-xtensa.org. >> >> I wouldn't say it's in bad shape, I just built an vmlinux image from the >> latest tree (3.6.0-rc1), but it might not be very stable. One of the major >> issues is not really the kernel but there's actually no way to build a >> fairly recent version of the toolchain. I have been using a somewhat more >> recent buildroot version than what is on xtensa-linux.org, but even that >> version of buildroot is rather old now and needed a few patches. > > Are the errors > > | dangerous relocation: l32r: literal placed after use: .literal.unlikely > (http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/6845615/) > > preventing linking of vmlinux toolchain issues? They may be considered as such (toolchain now adds *.unlikely sections which was not the case previously), or may not, depending on what one would expect from the toolchain. I have a fix for that issue: https://github.com/jcmvbkbc/linux-xtensa/commit/edd7c14132388d5c09c57cf12c76c6631a1e0277 -- Thanks. -- Max -- 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/