[Buildroot] Error when adding media-ctl as package

[Patrick <kpa_info@yahoo.fr>]

On 01/09/2013 05:23 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Patrick,
>
> On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:08:32 +0100, Patrick wrote:
>
>> After changing the toolchain I have a really annoying side effect: my
>> kernel do not boot anymore !
>>
>> My previous toolchain was Sourcery G++ Lite 2009q1-203 GCC 4.3.3, my
>> new toolchain is Sourcery CodeBench ARM 2012.03. I run Linux 3.0 on a
>> Ti DM3730 processor.
>>
>> With both toolchain I do not change the kernel configuration. With
>> the old toolchain the kernel boot nicelly, with the new toolchain the
>> kernel do not boot after u-boot message "Starting kernel ...". I use
>> the same version of u-boot in both case with the same rootfs...
>>
>> Any idea why changing the toolchain could result in this issue ?
>
> Most likely a compiler bug. Maybe you're being hit by
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1438281/. Since you're using a Ti
> DM3730, can you instead use the Linaro toolchains, that are also
> pre-configured in Buildroot (just make sure you selected the Cortex-A8
> architecture variant in Buildroot) ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas
>

Same issue with Linaro 2012.10...
I have selected ARM little Endian and Cortex-A8

Patrick