From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ivan Kuten Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:36:33 +0200 (EET) Subject: [Buildroot] Buildroot and Linux/ARM on AT91SAM9260 In-Reply-To: <0FA0EAE7-0236-46E2-94F1-F3C664582A6B@oregonstate.edu> References: <1D3F8BA5-BB0F-4306-A179-760E18E1EF63@mac.com> <691A7752-1681-409D-936A-9C6A7935510F@oregonstate.edu> <20071129133008.GB20914@real.realitydiluted.com> <6E89F2D1-2F8C-4F77-ADA8-2727407BBE6C@oregonstate.edu> <4766A061.7060308@promwad.com> <85F68C4E-6290-4E64-875C-982B0E377695@oregonstate.edu> <47635.127.0.0.1.1197931767.squirrel@localhost> <7E283458-5B84-4AF8-9B2E-7B6D42081922@oregonstate.edu> <0FA0EAE7-0236-46E2-94F1-F3C664582A6B@oregonstate.edu> Message-ID: <52481.127.0.0.1.1197934593.squirrel@localhost> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >> Correct. My 2.6.21.6 kernel is about 1.1MB. My 2.6.23.9 kernel is > >> 4MB. I get the "Uncompressing Linux....." etc. then a few gibberish >> characters and then it freezes. I'm assuming something is wacky about >> that particular toolchain combination. I'll try using binutils 2.17 >> and see if that helps. > Oh, and the build that I have working thus far is: > > svn snapshot from 05/21/2007 + Atmel patches from Ulf > gcc 4.0.4 > binutils 2.17 > uClibc 0.9.28.3 > kernel 2.6.21.6 + atmel patches for 2.6.21 > EABI > > This has been working great for me since May/June, but I want to start > working towards uClibc 0.9.29 and/or the most recent snapshots once > the ARM NPTL stuff hits trunk. I've been having some weird threading > problems using LinuxThreads. > > Thanks, > > Ryan > As I see we have 2 problems: 1) binutils 2.18 generate incorrect kernel image at least for 2.6.23 kernel: probably on this step: arm-linux-objcopy -O binary -R .note -R comment -S vmlinux arch/arm/boot/Image 2) invalid rootfs binaries generated by svn toolchain Regards, Ivan