From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Albert ARIBAUD Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 08:34:30 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] ./MAKEALL arm is buggy - scratch that... In-Reply-To: <20130209083106.783a9a9b@lilith> References: <1346198876-31080-1-git-send-email-amartin@nvidia.com> <5FBF8E85CA34454794F0F7ECBA79798F379DE72FE1@HQMAIL04.nvidia.com> <20120829183306.GE9587@nvidia.com> <20130209083106.783a9a9b@lilith> Message-ID: <20130209083430.62775902@lilith> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Scratch thtat: for some reason this old discussion popped up under my eyes and due to my current issues with MAKEALL, I blanked on the date. I'll repost that part on parallel MAKEALL failing in parallel apart. Sorry for the noise. :/ On Sat, 9 Feb 2013 08:31:06 +0100, Albert ARIBAUD wrote: > Hi Allen, > > On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:33:06 -0700, Allen Martin > wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 09:55:17AM -0700, Tom Warren wrote: > > > Allen/Albert, > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Allen Martin [mailto:amartin at nvidia.com] > > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 5:08 PM > > > > To: Tom Warren; swarren at wwwdotorg.org; sjg at chromium.org; > > > > thierry.reding at avionic-design.de; dev at lynxeye.de > > > > Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de; Allen Martin > > > > Subject: [PATCH v10 00/16] split tegra20 arm7 code into separate SPL > > > > > > > > This patch series fixes a long standing problem with the tegra20 u-boot > > > > build. Tegra20 contains an ARM7TDMI boot processor and a Cortex A9 main > > > > processor. Prior to this patch series this was accomplished by #ifdefing > > > > out any armv7 code from the early boot sequence and creating a single binary > > > > that runs on both both the ARM7TDMI and A9. This was very fragile as > > > > changes to compiler options or any additions or rearranging of the early > > > > boot code could add additional armv7 specific code causing it to fail on the > > > > ARM7TDMI. > > > > > > > > This patch series pulls all the armv4t code out into a separate SPL that > > > > does nothing more than initialize the A9 and transfer control to it. The > > > > resultint SPL and armv7 u-boot are concatenated together into a single > > > > image. > > > > > > > > This patch series is also available from: > > > > git://github.com/arm000/u-boot.git > > > > branch: tegra-spl-v10 > > > > > > > > Changes: > > > > v10: > > > > - added fix to MAKEALL script so that it correctly parses new boards.cfg > > > > > > I applied this to u-boot-tegra/master and pushed the new code upstream. The pull request remains the same (except for the inclusion of the MAKEALL patch, of course). I can send a new one if required - please let me know. > > > > > > Currently running a ./MAKEALL arm - I assume it'll complete w/o errors (except for the ohci-hcd.c warnings I mentioned previously that are not due to this patch series). > > > > > > > Changing subject line to get Albert's attention > > My attention latency is a bit layered right now. during the week I'm > primarily going through my 'non-colorful' mail -- 'colorful' being > those with my address in Cc: (condition Orange) and To: (condition Red) > respectively -- and ARM patches, then the rest as remaining time allows. > > > Thanks Tom. I traced down why "./MAKEALL arm" and "./MAKEALL -a arm" > > come up with a different list of boards. It's because the LIST_arm > > rule in MAKEALL which "./MAKEALL arm" uses is buggy and error prone. > > It's building all the Atmel boards twice and skipping a bunch of others > > like the arm720t, arm946es, and arm1176 boards. > > > > I'm going to work on a patch to make LIST_arm use the same logic as > > "./MAKEALL -a arm" but in the mean time I strongly suggest using > > "./MAKEALL -a arm" since it generates the correct list of boards. > > > > -Allen > > Just to point out that there were discussions in the past regarding the > difference between ./MAKEALL arm and ./MAKEALL -a arm; I use '-a arm'. > > In any case, thanks for digging into MAKEALL! Any bug you see sure will > go in 2013.04. If you need any help for cross-checking issue on > another setup than yours, please ping me, either in To: or through IRC. > > BTW, recently I have seen MAKEALL -a arm fail sporadically on some > boards during parallel builds; more specifically, with BUILD_NBUILDS=8 > and BUILD_NCPUS=1. Note that the actual machine has a 4-core, 8-thread > CPU, so maybe that was because the number of parallel builds was just > equal to the number of (pseudo) CPUs available; I am now using six > parallel builds and haven't seen the issue again so far. > > (also, I prepend the command with LANG=C to avoid making the error > messages any more French than they already are when I copy-paste them > to the list. Not sure how that could have any influence on the build > errors, of course.) > > Amicalement, Amicalement, -- Albert.