From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755206AbYGVSWr (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:22:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751404AbYGVSWi (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:22:38 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:45709 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752605AbYGVSWh (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:22:37 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:05:16 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: David Woodhouse Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sam@ravnborg.org Subject: Re: Firmware breakage Message-ID: <20080722190516.4ee477f4@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1216748431.3019.6.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> References: <20080722173420.6f90556d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <1216748431.3019.6.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.4.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:40:31 -0400 David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 17:34 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > If you crossbuild x86-32 on x86-64 and then attempt to do the install on > > an x86-32 box the install now breaks. This used to work until the > > firmware changes. Now you get > > > > /bin/sh: scripts/basic/fixdep: cannot execute binary file > > > > Fixdep should be built for the target platform surely ? > > Er, I haven't knowingly touched anything involving fixdep. Can you show > me exactly what you did? I'll try to reproduce and understand what's > happening. Build on a 64bit box with ARCH=i386 NFS mount on a 32bit box make modules_install on 32bit box It used to work nicely, as of the firmware changes it doesn't. Not sure what the trigger is here yet. If I hand rebuild fixdep as a 32bit binary the rest runs through fine.