From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756733AbcARXeN (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jan 2016 18:34:13 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([103.22.144.67]:56563 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754668AbcARXeM (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jan 2016 18:34:12 -0500 Message-ID: <1453160050.24878.2.camel@ellerman.id.au> Subject: Re: Build regressions/improvements in v4.4 From: Michael Ellerman To: Guenter Roeck , Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Stephen Rothwell Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 10:34:10 +1100 In-Reply-To: <569D13BB.5090707@roeck-us.net> References: <1452500907-30943-1-git-send-email-geert@linux-m68k.org> <20160111111437.GA19316@roeck-us.net> <1452750287.21271.1.camel@ellerman.id.au> <569D13BB.5090707@roeck-us.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.16.5-1ubuntu3.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2016-01-18 at 08:32 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On 01/13/2016 09:44 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > On Mon, 2016-01-11 at 12:38 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > Hi Günter, > > > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 09:29:52AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > JFYI, when comparing v4.4[1] to v4.4-rc8[3], the summaries are: > > > > > > - build errors: +13/-13 > > > > > > [1] http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/head/9774/ (all 259 configs) > > > > > > > > > > + /tmp/ccnzCwY6.s: Error: can't resolve `_start' {*UND* section} - > > > > > `L0^A' {.text section}: => 43 > > > > > + /tmp/ccyAN6Ix.s: Error: can't resolve `_start' {*UND* section} - > > > > > `L0^A' {.text section}: => 43 > > > > > > > > > > Various MIPS, the saga continues... > > > > > > > > Hi Geert, > > > > > > > > do you know which version of binutils is used by kisskb ? > > > > If it is 2.23.90 or similar (ie below 2.24 and third level version > > > > has more than one digit), there is a patch pending to fix it. > > > > > > No, I don't know. > > > > It dumps the GCC version, but not binutils. I should add that one day. > > > > The mips toolchain is pretty old, so it's using binutils 2.22. Are you saying I > > need to update it? > > > Michael, > > is your toolchain available somewhere as binary ? I'd like to add a single > mips build test using it if possible. Hi Guenter, I'm still using this old one from kernel.org: https://www.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/files/bin/x86_64/4.6.3/x86_64-gcc-4.6.3-nolibc_mips-linux.tar.bz2 cheers