From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 09:13:10 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] status of odroidc2's support? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20171204091310.5295266f@windsurf.home> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Mon, 4 Dec 2017 07:35:27 +0100, daggs wrote: > now that gcc 4.9.x was dropped from buildroot, Gcc 4.9 is not dropped from Buildroot, it's still there in the current Git master. > is it impossible to build the vendor's version of odroidc2. (uboot > doesn't compile) > so the is no way to build a workable image for this board. I think > there support for gcc5 was added but not for gcc6. I've tried to add > support for gcc6 but it won't boot the kernel. > > unfortunately, I don't have any time to handle both vendor and > mainline support. I wonder if it worthwhile to continue my support > for it. I know that soon to be mainline kernel 4.15 has hdmi support > but I don't know for what extent (still trying to figure it out), one > thing is sure, there will be no hw decoding support. is there a way > to restore support for the vendor's flavor? maybe and external > toolchain? Getting U-Boot to build with gcc 5.x should just be a matter of backporting a U-Boot patch. Can you try applying something like ./roseapplepi/patches/uboot/0001-compiler-.h-sync-include-linux-compiler-.h-with-Linu.patch to your U-Boot and see if it works ? Thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com