Re: Updates for RedHat 7.1/mips

[Geoffrey Espin <espin@idiom.com>]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 03:59:25PM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> I updated glibc, python, gcc, gdb, rpm, openssl, binutils and toolchain at
> ftp://oss.sgi.com/pub/linux/mips/redhat/7.1/
> Let know know if there are any problems.

I've been using your old October toolchain-20011020-* quite happily.
So foolishly, I upgraded to this new toolchain*rpm for mipsel on i386.

When building a linux-mips.sourceforge.net -based kernel, if I
include CONFIG_PCI in the configuration, I get:

...
mipsel-linux-ld -G 0 -static -T arch/mips/ld.script.0x80002000 arch/mips/kernel/head.o arch/mips/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o init/version.o \
        --start-group \
        arch/mips/kernel/kernel.o arch/mips/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o arch/mips/math-emu/fpu_emulator.o arch/mips/ramdisk/ramdisk.o \
         drivers/char/char.o drivers/block/block.o drivers/misc/misc.o drivers/net/net.o drivers/media/media.o drivers/pci/driver.o drivers/mtd/mtdlink.o \
        net/network.o \
        arch/mips/lib/lib.a /home/espin/linux/lib/lib.a arch/mips/korva/korva.a
\
        --end-group \
        -o vmlinux
drivers/char/char.o(.data+0x3990): undefined reference to `local symbols in discarded section .text.exit'
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1


If I don't include CONFIG_PCI the problem goes away.
It also sometimes complained about symbols in drivers/net/net.o.

I stumbled on:

   http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200112/msg00768.html

which says that Alan Cox came up with enabling CONFIG_HOTPLUG as a workaround.
Seems to work.  :-/

Other useful suggestions found were to downgrade ones' binutils. :-)

Geoff
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