From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/kvm-unit-tests: new package
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 08:12:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160923081216.6f580f50@free-electrons.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1474610816.2482.14.camel@gmail.com>
Hello,
On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 16:06:56 +1000, Cyril Bur wrote:
> So the i686 problem is actually fixed upstream so I've sent a patch to
> bump the version.
>
> I tried select BR2_HOSTARCH_NEEDS_IA32_COMPILER for x86_64 but didn't
> seem to solve the problem. I know almost nothing about x86 asm so I'm
> at a bit of a loss, it looks like gcc is generating instructions from C
> that should be 16bit but then later it realises it messed up?
>
> Still chasing but having BR2_HOSTARCH_NEEDS_IA32_COMPILER=y didn't
> solve.
No, you need this *and* use the host compiler when building
kvm-unit-tests on x86_64. By using the host compiler, you use a
compiler that can generate 32 bits code.
See syslinux and grub, like Peter suggested.
Thanks!
Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-23 6:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-17 23:02 [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/kvm-unit-tests: new package Cyril Bur
2016-09-19 14:48 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-09-19 21:07 ` Peter Korsgaard
2016-09-19 23:12 ` Cyril Bur
2016-09-21 7:24 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-09-22 0:01 ` Cyril Bur
2016-09-22 5:18 ` Peter Korsgaard
2016-09-22 9:34 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2016-09-22 9:42 ` Peter Korsgaard
2016-09-23 6:06 ` Cyril Bur
2016-09-23 6:12 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2016-09-23 6:14 ` Cyril Bur
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