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From: myuboot@fastmail.fm
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: loadable kernel module link failure -  endianness incompatible with that of the selected emulation
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:51:34 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1263930694.9779.1355491925@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AD906D8.3020404@caviumnetworks.com>

I got a link error when compiling 2 loadable kernel modules -
"endianness incompatible with that of the selected emulation". 

But both kernel and the kernel modules of error are in big endian. I
don't know what I should check or fix. Any suggestions? I checked the
endianess of the kernel by checking the elf header of vmlinux file, is
that the right way to do it?

Below are the error info and the readelf output, showing both the kernel
and a kernel module are in big endian.
Thanks for your help. Andrew

1) error log 
make -C /home/root123/sources/kernel/linux
CROSS_COMPILE=""/home/root123/sources/gcc3.4.3-be"/bin/mips-linux-"
M=/home/root123/sources/sdk/platform/src/linux/mxp/src modules    

  LD [M]  /home/root123/sources/sdk/platform/src/linux/mxp/src/mxpmod.o
/home/root123/sources/gcc3.4.3-be/bin/mips-linux-ld:
/home/root123/sources/sdk/platform/src/linux/mxp/src/mmxpcore.o:
compiled for a big endian system and target is little endian
/home/root123/sources/gcc3.4.3-be/bin/mips-linux-ld:
/home/root123/sources/sdk/platform/src/linux/mxp/src/mmxpcore.o:
endianness incompatible with that of the selected emulation
/home/root123/sources/gcc3.4.3-be/bin/mips-linux-ld: failed to merge
target specific data of file
/home/root123/sources/sdk/platform/src/linux/mxp/src/mmxpcore.o
make[13]: ***
[/home/root123/sources/sdk/platform/src/linux/mxp/src/mxpmod.o] Error 1

2) kernel is in big endian
readelf -h vmlinux
ELF Header:
  Magic:   7f 45 4c 46 01 02 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
  Class:                             ELF32
  Data:                              2's complement, big endian
  Version:                           1 (current)
  OS/ABI:                            UNIX - System V
  ABI Version:                       0
  Type:                              EXEC (Executable file)
  Machine:                           MIPS R3000
  Version:                           0x1
  Entry point address:               0x941aa000
  Start of program headers:          52 (bytes into file)
  Start of section headers:          1720624 (bytes into file)
  Flags:                             0x50001001, noreorder, o32, mips32
  Size of this header:               52 (bytes)
  Size of program headers:           32 (bytes)
  Number of program headers:         1
  Size of section headers:           40 (bytes)
  Number of section headers:         27
  Section header string table index: 24


3) kernel module is big endian.
readelf -h mmxpcore.o
ELF Header:
  Magic:   7f 45 4c 46 01 02 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
  Class:                             ELF32
  Data:                              2's complement, big endian
  Version:                           1 (current)
  OS/ABI:                            UNIX - System V
  ABI Version:                       0
  Type:                              REL (Relocatable file)
  Machine:                           MIPS R3000
  Version:                           0x1
  Entry point address:               0x0
  Start of program headers:          0 (bytes into file)
  Start of section headers:          81024 (bytes into file)
  Flags:                             0x10001001, noreorder, o32, mips2
  Size of this header:               52 (bytes)
  Size of program headers:           0 (bytes)
  Number of program headers:         0
  Size of section headers:           40 (bytes)
  Number of section headers:         34
  Section header string table index: 31

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-19 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1255735395.30097.1340523469@webmail.messagingengine.com>
2009-10-16 23:50 ` 2.6.31 kernel for mips compile failure - war.h:12:17: error: war.h: No such file or directory David Daney
2009-10-19 23:49   ` myuboot
2009-10-19 23:56   ` serial port 8250 messed up after coverting from little endian to big endian on kernel 2.6.31 myuboot
2009-10-20  6:17     ` Florian Fainelli
2009-10-20 15:52       ` myuboot
2009-10-27 20:40       ` myuboot
2009-10-28  8:35         ` Shmulik Ladkani
2009-10-28 11:04           ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-10-28 19:36             ` myuboot
2009-10-29  8:26               ` Shmulik Ladkani
2009-11-02 23:54                 ` myuboot
2009-12-04  1:52           ` PIR OFFSET for AR7 myuboot
2009-12-04 16:03             ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2009-12-04 17:30               ` myuboot
2009-11-11  0:22   ` Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! myuboot
     [not found]     ` <4AFA6B7F.10404@walsimou.com>
2009-11-11 15:48       ` myuboot
2009-11-17  0:21       ` problem bring up initramfs and busybox myuboot
2009-11-17  9:33         ` Ralf Baechle
2009-11-17 17:39           ` myuboot
2009-11-17 17:48             ` Florian Fainelli
2009-11-17 21:09               ` myuboot
2009-11-17 21:02             ` Kevin D. Kissell
2009-11-17 21:54               ` Chris Dearman
2009-11-18  0:31                 ` myuboot
2009-11-18  0:39                   ` Florian Fainelli
2009-11-18  0:58                     ` myuboot
2009-11-18  1:03                       ` David VomLehn
2009-11-18 16:11                         ` myuboot
2009-11-18 16:29                         ` myuboot
2009-11-26  0:24                         ` myuboot
2009-11-26  8:45                           ` Florian Fainelli
2009-11-26 18:23                             ` myuboot
2009-12-05  0:18                             ` myuboot
2010-01-19 19:51   ` myuboot [this message]
2010-01-19 23:47     ` loadable kernel module link failure - endianness incompatible with that of the selected emulation David Daney
2010-01-20 16:10       ` myuboot

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