Toolchain status

[Zach Pfeffer]

2011/12/18 Michael Hope <michael.hope at linaro.org>:
> 2011/12/18 Bernhard Rosenkränzer <bernhard.rosenkranzer at linaro.org>:
>> On 17 December 2011 06:30, Zach Pfeffer <zach.pfeffer at linaro.org> wrote:
>>> 2011/12/17 Bernhard Rosenkränzer <bernhard.rosenkranzer at linaro.org>:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I've verified that toolchain 11.12 compiles our userland ok, the only
>>>> problem is w/ the kernel.
>>>> A build using the 11.12 toolchain for userland and an older toolchain
>>>> for the kernel is ok.
>>>
>>> Is is possible to create an android-build with this configuration?
>>
>> Yes, I already did:
>> https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~berolinux/panda-toolchain-test/#build=5
>>
>>> Those sound good. Ricardo have you compiled and booted a kernel with
>>> the generic 11.12 arm-eabi- toolchain?
>>
>> Or with any other 11.12 toolchain for that matter? We currently build
>> arm-eabi- and arm-linux-androideabi- toolchains, so arm-linux-gnueabi-
>> is untested on our side. But that's likely what you're using.
>> I don't think there's enough of a difference between
>> arm-linux-androideabi- and arm-linux-gnueabi- to make the theory that
>> one boots while the other doesn't plausible.
>>
>>> Maybe John Rigby can help. I saw the failure at boot, do you still see
>>> the same behavior?
>>
>> Yes
>>
>>> If so I think John has a JTAG that he could trace
>>> with.
>>
>> That would definitely be useful
>
> +1 to that.  I wonder if the kernel guys have any hints for tracking
> this type of problem down?  Early printk() or similar?

Michael, is there anything else we can do or check?

Bero,

Would you list the current status of each test build and what you may
have discovered in testing each one?



> -- Michael



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