Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:32:28AM +0300, Dmitri Vorobiev wrote:
>
>> The linux-mips.org Web site recommends gcc 3.4.4 to build the MIPS kernel.
>> However:
>>
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>> [dmitri.vorobiev@amber linux-2.6]$ mips-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc -v
>> Reading specs from
>> /home/dmitri.vorobiev/Projects/misc/zoo/lib/gcc/mips-unknown-linux-gnu/3.4.4/specs
>> Configured with: ../src/gcc-3.4.4/configure
>> --prefix=/home/dmitri.vorobiev/Projects/misc/zoo
>> --target=mips-unknown-linux-gnu --disable-nls --without-headers
>> --with-gnu-ld --with-gnu-as --disable-shared --disable-threads
>> Thread model: single
>> gcc version 3.4.4
>> [dmitri.vorobiev@amber linux-2.6]$ make ARCH=mips
>> CROSS_COMPILE=mips-unknown-linux-gnu-
>> CHK include/linux/version.h
>> CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h
>> CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh
>> CC init/main.o
>> include/asm/bitops.h: In function `start_kernel':
>> include/asm/bitops.h:76: warning: asm operand 2 probably doesn't match
>> constraints
>> include/asm/bitops.h:76: warning: asm operand 2 probably doesn't match
>> constraints
>> include/asm/bitops.h:76: warning: asm operand 2 probably doesn't match
>> constraints
>> include/asm/bitops.h:76: error: impossible constraint in `asm'
>> include/asm/bitops.h:76: error: impossible constraint in `asm'
>> include/asm/bitops.h:76: error: impossible constraint in `asm'
>> make[1]: *** [init/main.o] Error 1
>> make: *** [init] Error 2
>> [dmitri.vorobiev@amber linux-2.6]$
>>
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>>
>> Kernel build goes smoothly for me with this gcc version:
>>
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>> [dmitri.vorobiev@amber linux-2.6]$ mips-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc -v
>> Using built-in specs.
>> Target: mips-unknown-linux-gnu
>> Configured with: ../gcc-4.3.0/configure --target=mips-unknown-linux-gnu
>> --disable-nls --disable-threads --disable-shared --disable-multilib
>> --disable-libmudflap --disable-libssp
>> --prefix=/home/dmitri.vorobiev/Projects/misc/zoo/4.3-toolchain
>> --with-gmp=/home/dmitri.vorobiev/Projects/misc/zoo/
>> --with-mfpr=/home/dmitri.vorobiev/Projects/misc/zoo --without-headers
>> --with-gnu-as=/tmp/cross/ --with-gnu-ld=/tmp/cross/ --disable-libgcc
>> --enable-languages=c --disable-libgomp
>> Thread model: single
>> gcc version 4.3.0 (GCC)
>> [dmitri.vorobiev@amber linux-2.6]$
>>
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>>
>> What I would like to know is which gcc/binutils versions are currently the
>> blessed ones. Thanks.
>
> Anything from gcc 3.2 to 4.3 is supposed to work for 32-bit kernels; 3.3
> to 4.3 are the blessed ones for 64-bit kernels.
>
> I'll look into that build problem ... hmm... First thing I'm hitting
> with 3.4.6 and binutils 2.18 is:
>
> [ralf@denk linux-mips]$ make malta_defconfig
> [ralf@denk linux-mips]$ nice -19 make
> cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-fno-stack-protector"
> scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/mips/Kconfig
> cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-fno-stack-protector"
>
> With the offending line in the main Makefile commented out I get the same
> error messages as you. Initial fix below.
With this fix applied on top of the current Linus git tree I was able to build
and boot the kernel using my 4Kc. Thanks a lot!
Regards,
Dmitri
>
> Ralf
>
> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
>
> diff --git a/include/asm-mips/bitops.h b/include/asm-mips/bitops.h
> index 9a7274b..49df8c4 100644
> --- a/include/asm-mips/bitops.h
> +++ b/include/asm-mips/bitops.h
> @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ static inline void set_bit(unsigned long nr, volatile
> unsigned long *addr)
> "2: b 1b \n"
> " .previous \n"
> : "=&r" (temp), "=m" (*m)
> - : "i" (bit), "m" (*m), "r" (~0));
> + : "ir" (bit), "m" (*m), "r" (~0));
> #endif /* CONFIG_CPU_MIPSR2 */
> } else if (cpu_has_llsc) {
> __asm__ __volatile__(
> @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ static inline void clear_bit(unsigned long nr, volatile
> unsigned long *addr)
> "2: b 1b \n"
> " .previous \n"
> : "=&r" (temp), "=m" (*m)
> - : "i" (bit), "m" (*m));
> + : "ir" (bit), "m" (*m));
> #endif /* CONFIG_CPU_MIPSR2 */
> } else if (cpu_has_llsc) {
> __asm__ __volatile__(
> @@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ static inline int test_and_clear_bit(unsigned long nr,
> "2: b 1b \n"
> " .previous \n"
> : "=&r" (temp), "=m" (*m), "=&r" (res)
> - : "i" (bit), "m" (*m)
> + : "ir" (bit), "m" (*m)
> : "memory");
> #endif
> } else if (cpu_has_llsc) {
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