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From: "Måns Rullgård" <mans@mansr.com>
To: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
	Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>,
	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>,
	Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>,
	"linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: avr32 build failures in linux-next
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 14:31:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yw1xegbi4d68.fsf@unicorn.mansr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160310142938.7e765a95@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (One Thousand Gnomes's message of "Thu, 10 Mar 2016 14:29:38 +0000")

One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

> On Wed, 9 Mar 2016 21:30:55 +0200
> Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 6:02 AM, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
>> > On 02/08/2016 08:06 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:  
>> >>
>> >> On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 7:28 PM, Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com> wrote:
>> >>  
>> >>> Not very surprising either.  The number of people using Linux on avr32
>> >>> is probably approximately zero, and if anyone is, they're likely still
>> >>> running 2.6.32 or thereabouts.  
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Once I tried up the topic about removal avr32 for good, but looks like
>> >> it wasn't a good time. Maybe now is better? It would really reduce a
>> >> burden on many drivers.
>> >>  
>> > I would agree, as long as the maintainers agree. We don't want to repeat
>> > the h8300 experience.  
>> 
>> So, are we going to agree that avr32 must be retired from next cycle?
>> 
>> P.S. I have no idea how to fix this "…relocation truncated to fit:
>> R_AVR32_21S…", though I can test anything anyone propose.
>
> It means the AVR32 tool chain generated a 21bit signed code relocation
> then couldn't fix it up at link time. This probably simply means that
> something called through anon_inode_getfile() is now more than 1MB away
> from the call location, in which case you'll just need to debloat the
> kernel until it fits again or re-order the link to cure it (if I had to
> guess it'll be some kind of support function call and the compiler
> support tends to end up one end of the binary not in the middle).

It turned out to be a wrong asm operand constraint in cmpxchg().  Patch
already sent.

-- 
Måns Rullgård

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-10 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-05 16:02 avr32 build failures in linux-next Guenter Roeck
2016-02-05 16:32 ` Sudip Mukherjee
2016-02-06 11:57   ` Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt
2016-02-06 14:01     ` Måns Rullgård
2016-02-06 16:19       ` Guenter Roeck
2016-02-06 17:28         ` Måns Rullgård
2016-02-08 16:06           ` Andy Shevchenko
2016-02-09  4:02             ` Guenter Roeck
2016-03-09 19:30               ` Andy Shevchenko
2016-03-09 19:50                 ` Måns Rullgård
2016-03-10  4:55                   ` Sudip Mukherjee
2016-03-10 13:38                 ` Måns Rullgård
2016-03-10 13:53                   ` Andy Shevchenko
2016-03-10 14:24                     ` Måns Rullgård
2016-03-10 14:29                 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-03-10 14:31                   ` Måns Rullgård [this message]
2016-03-10 15:10                     ` Andy Shevchenko
2016-02-06 15:50     ` Guenter Roeck

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