From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:60314 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753651AbdJHTyp (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Oct 2017 15:54:45 -0400 Message-ID: <1507492460.2677.85.camel@decadent.org.uk> Subject: Re: Building older mips kernels with different versions of binutils; possible patch for 3.2 and 3.4 From: Ben Hutchings To: Guenter Roeck , stable , Linux MIPS Mailing List , Li Zefan , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2017 20:54:20 +0100 In-Reply-To: <05e37183-f6a6-d141-5dad-9d4b161953b1@roeck-us.net> References: <573936E3.3050003@roeck-us.net> <1507486329.2677.81.camel@decadent.org.uk> <05e37183-f6a6-d141-5dad-9d4b161953b1@roeck-us.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha512"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-CtvzUo0iHQnSwjoH3h+Y" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-CtvzUo0iHQnSwjoH3h+Y Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2017-10-08 at 12:01 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On 10/08/2017 11:49 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > On 10/08/2017 11:12 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Sun, 2016-05-15 at 19:56 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > > [...] > > > > For 3.4 and 3.2 kernels to build with binutils v2.24, it would be n= ecessary to > > > > apply patch c02263063362 ("MIPS: Refactor 'clear_page' and 'copy_pa= ge' functions"). > > > > It applies cleanly to 3.4, but has a Makefile conflict in 3.2. It m= ight > > > > make sense to apply this patch to both releases. Would this be poss= ible ? > > > > This way, we would have at least one toolchain which can build all = 3.2+ kernels. > > >=20 > > > I'm finally queueing this up for 3.2. > > >=20 > > > Ben. > > >=20 > >=20 > > mipsel images in 3.2.y-queue are now crashing for me. Should I have a l= ook ? > >=20 >=20 > Turns out the culprit is qemu. I had switched from qemu 2.9 to qemu 2.10. > Something has changed in qemu that causes a qemu boot failure with 3.2 mi= psel > (but not in more recent kernels). I'll switch back to qemu 2.9 for the af= fected > builds. Thanks. I did notice these failures but didn't think they were related to the few MIPS patches in the 3.2 queue. Ben. --=20 Ben Hutchings compatible: Gracefully accepts erroneous data from any source --=-CtvzUo0iHQnSwjoH3h+Y Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCgAdFiEErCspvTSmr92z9o8157/I7JWGEQkFAlnagmwACgkQ57/I7JWG EQksng/+Ii7w56BUaxsCvSQ4VcFJOUb8ZQlDkcc3pmAngjOyztebfndA/mFAxxGF Qxn85qb7EQ8Y/Q1sN39aUCP82zYXGCTsj/xyzZ11fqzENQ54gfudjBmEyytim9Yt XuCPXQ+9OdnrV4OELsCQIroOa32dNb1Ysm3AO4vrpeKiZtXXCAWP3otqo6Y6ggGr gJBFoN7evTN9U8T7/qaKJLOrZAqjivM7jyLuT1o06/8gCtGm/DzCLWdex+4b7p/n /a2wuUmgpJjTP/b6kQtv/3WfdkqjPNbQb/BntIrZJsu0z3st120QPMB5X2xlUjXE iuZH8LgAo5ZL2/+SnLMA3ZPMcAahrRl+ofHAPzk7kttk81DMAiYKWysdgLAqzDxw nTnCyCcSzIdKhkgmXKXigoODS1HY0P/bmkyHnTrfoVDzldkx6IWfB3QpIaYkmeqM QOFJLJ7DHVSArHzfxGFW0k0yq2ztXjtBBPHEZ6u+2AtaJP0TU9ZhrRxvfYpftnN2 cR/sf7EZjbD4WVG45JjCXf5SZaAh+SN+peXgdf3f0IYWZA9eXVkJQcqHJWCxMO+3 UJOQvgcuuSRKIaZC5HB8+rLtirOQ7GUr3dZoUoIb0Cmkq9xR50Z9bRJEJhjRIvIB BGF8rAwETwYihENuMtANrn4ZMzymigTByug9/DwxNQub02yOS2c= =Y1Zz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-CtvzUo0iHQnSwjoH3h+Y--