[Buildroot] EABI option required ?

[Buildroot] EABI option required ?

[Rae_Samant at emc.com]

Hello,
 I am trying to build a toolchain using buildroot and use that toolchain
to build
 Kernel and ramdisk for ARM 926EJ-Sid.

Is EABI option for toolchain required ?
 
 I used option OABI -- resulting in my shell not working.( Kernel comes
up but linuxrc does not execute. Seems that shell does not execute.).
> BR2_ARM_OABI=y
> # BR2_ARM_EABI is not set

 If I use option EABI, then the kernel does not compile:
< # BR2_ARM_OABI is not set
< BR2_ARM_EABI=y

Kernel compile Gives following error:

[root@raes linux-feroceon_2_2_2_NAS_GDP]# make uImage
  CHK     include/linux/version.h
  UPD     include/linux/version.h
  SYMLINK include/asm -> include/asm-arm
  SPLIT   include/linux/autoconf.h -> include/config/*
  CC      scripts/mod/empty.o
cc1: error: invalid option `abi=aapcs-linux'
make[2]: *** [scripts/mod/empty.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [scripts/mod] Error 2
make: *** [scripts] Error 2

My tools are old:
Buildroot: Daily snapshot of 20060906:
My gcc: 3.4.6
Busybox: 1.2.0

I am using kernel 2.6.12.6 patched with linux-feroceon_2_2_2_NAS_GDP
patch from marvell.
It does not compile with GCC 4.1.2 or later.

Kernel debugging also does not compile
(include/asm-arm/mach-feroceon/debug-macro.S is unavaliable).

The output with Gcc 3.4.6 compiled with is still same:

---------------
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Freeing init memory: 104K
init started:  BusyBox v1.2.0-svn (2007.09.20-17:56+0000) multi-call
binary
Starting pid 255, console /dev/ttyS0: '/etc/init.d/rcS'
Bummer, could not run '/etc/init.d/rcS': No such file or directory
Starting pid 256, console /dev/ttyS0: '/bin/sh'
Process '-/bin/sh' (pid 256) exited.  Scheduling it for restart.
Starting pid 257, console /dev/ttyS0: '/bin/sh'
(--keeps repeating--)
--------------

Please help me out of this problem if possible.
Thanks very much for kind attention.

Regards,
samant

[Buildroot] EABI option required ?

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 01:20:40PM -0400, Rae_Samant at emc.com wrote:
>Hello,
> I am trying to build a toolchain using buildroot and use that toolchain
>to build
> Kernel and ramdisk for ARM 926EJ-Sid.
>
>Is EABI option for toolchain required ?
> 
> I used option OABI -- resulting in my shell not working.( Kernel comes
>up but linuxrc does not execute. Seems that shell does not execute.).
>> BR2_ARM_OABI=y
>> # BR2_ARM_EABI is not set
>
> If I use option EABI, then the kernel does not compile:
>< # BR2_ARM_OABI is not set
>< BR2_ARM_EABI=y
>
>Kernel compile Gives following error:
>
>[root at raes linux-feroceon_2_2_2_NAS_GDP]# make uImage
>  CHK     include/linux/version.h
>  UPD     include/linux/version.h
>  SYMLINK include/asm -> include/asm-arm
>  SPLIT   include/linux/autoconf.h -> include/config/*
>  CC      scripts/mod/empty.o
>cc1: error: invalid option `abi=aapcs-linux'

If your compiler is too old to support abi=aapcs-linux then i suggest
you remove it.

>make[2]: *** [scripts/mod/empty.o] Error 1
>make[1]: *** [scripts/mod] Error 2
>make: *** [scripts] Error 2
>
>My tools are old:
>Buildroot: Daily snapshot of 20060906:
>My gcc: 3.4.6
>Busybox: 1.2.0

yea, they are old. I usually ask anybody trying to use stuff that old to
update and retry. Today is something like 20070920, current gcc is 4.2.1
(last time i looked), binutils are at 2.18(.50.0.1), busybox-1.7.1,
kernel-2.6.22.6 (last time i looked).
>
>I am using kernel 2.6.12.6 patched with linux-feroceon_2_2_2_NAS_GDP
>patch from marvell.

I'd kindly ask those guy to provide something vaguely recent, given that
2.6.12.6 was released almost exactly two years ago..
good luck