Dear Shawn,
On Tue, 2 Dec 2014 01:04:54 -0800
Shawn Guo <shawn....@linaro.org> wrote:
> + LAKML and more people.
>
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 05:38:38PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Monday 01 December 2014 16:32:21 Shawn Guo wrote:
> > > Is it a valid or supported use case to build LSK 3.14 kernel with
> > > android-toolchain? I can build a LSK 3.14 kernel with Linux toolchain
> > > gcc-linaro-arm-none-eabi-4.9-2014.09, which boots fine on my board.
> > > When I build the same kernel with
> > > android-toolchain-eabi-4.9-2014.09-x86, the kernel can be built out
> > > successfully, but it fails to boot on the board at very early stage
> > > with only uncompressing message shown up like below.
> > >
> > > Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
> > >
> > > And it's not a LSK 3.14 specific problem, I tried to build mainline
> > > 3.10, 3.14 and 3.18-rc4 with the android-toolchain, and they all
> > > failed to boot.
> > >
> > > I need some help to understand if it's a valid use case at all, before
> > > I try to looking into the problem.
> >
> > I would expect it to work, it's probably a good idea to find out
> > why it doesn't. For all I know 'arm-none-eabi' is actually /not/
> > supported for building the kernel, since that doesn't use the Linux
> > Linux variant of eabi, while 'arm-*-linux-gnueabi' or
> > 'arm-*-linux-gnueabihf' is the default for Linux these days and
> > 'arm-*-linux-android' should be compatible with that.
>
> Okay. Thanks for the info. It seems that I should download
> gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.9-2014.09 for comparison testing then.
> Actually, in the very first testing I used arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc 4.7.3
> shipped with Ubuntu 14.04.
>
> > What is the
> > exact target triplet you use in those two cases?
>
> They are arm-none-eabi and arm-linux-androideabi. And I also replaced
> the first toolchain with arm-linux-gnueabi one, and got the same result.
>
> >
> > A few things you could try:
> >
> > - boot it in qemu using the vexpress or virt platform code, see if
> > the symptom is the same. If it is, attach gdb to the qemu gdbstub
> > to look at the contents of the _log_buf.
> >
> > - Maybe debug_ll crashes, try disabling that
> >
> > - Maybe debug_ll is disabled already, try enabling it to see if you
> > get more output.
>
> I tracked it a little bit with debug_ll routine printch() and found it
> dies at the first pr_info() call in arch/arm/kernel/setup.c:
>
> pr_info("Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x%x\n", mpidr);
>
> And I spent some time to find out that the issue was introduced by
> commit dad5451a322b (ARM: 7605/1: vmlinux.lds: Move .notes section
> next to the rodata) since v3.8 release. Reverting the commit helps me
> to get a booting kernel that is built by arm-linux-androideabi
> toolchain. But I do not have the knowledge to understand what is
> happening.
>
>From my experience in last several years
1. the arm-linux-androideabi- toolchain sets some options by default, PIC for
example, even -mno-android can't disable all the side effects per my test.
2. the arm-linux-eandroideabi- toolchain use gold for linker by default. Maybe
gold can't understand vmlinux.lds correctly?
Thanks,
Jisheng
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