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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 21:07:42 +0200
Subject: [Buildroot] ext-toolchain-wrapper issues
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Hello,

Le Wed, 8 Aug 2012 11:12:59 -0500,
Dallas Clement <dallas.a.clement@gmail.com> a ?crit :

> Just wanted to get back with you on this and let you know that I
> narrowed this down further.  There is no fault with the
> ext-toolchain-wrapper code.  It does the right thing.  The problem
> with my Linux kernel not booting was caused by the use of an incorrect
> gcc tune parameter.  This came from a buildroot config file I got from
> Marvell.  I simply changed it as follows, and everything is fine now.
> 
> #BR2_GCC_TARGET_TUNE="marvell-fv7"
> BR2_GCC_TARGET_TUNE="cortex-a9"

Ok, thanks for the investigation. I guess -mtune=marvell-fv7 argument
is specific to the Marvell gcc compiler, I haven't heard of it before.

Best regards,

Thomas
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