* Re: [gentoo-mips] Problems with mips-sources-2.6.20
@ 2007-06-10 17:16 99% ` Kumba
0 siblings, 0 replies; 1+ results
From: Kumba @ 2007-06-10 17:16 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-mips
Mathias W. wrote:
> Stephen P. Becker schrieb:
>>> oldconfig) and it doesn't boot. I get the same message as in this
>>> thread: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-mips/msg_00503.xml
>>>
>>> NESTED EXCEPTION #1 (vid 0) at EPC: ffffffff9fc6a0a4; first exception
>>> at PC: 0
>>>
>>> Several weeks before I tried 2.6.20.6 (which wasn't marked stable)
>>> and couldn't get this to boot either. The system is uptodate. Here is
>>> my toolchain: gcc-config -l
>>> [1] mips64-unknown-linux-gnu-3.4.6 *
>>> [2] mips64-unknown-linux-gnu-4.1.1
>>> [3] mips-unknown-linux-gnu-3.4.6 *
>>> [4] mips-unknown-linux-gnu-3.4.6-hardenednopiessp
>>> [5] mips-unknown-linux-gnu-4.1.1
>>>
>>> Any new suggestions to solve this apparently known problem?
>>>
>> Have you tried to build your kernel with gcc-4.1.1 instead of 3.4.6?
>
> Not yet, because this is the only system, where the kernel builds. On the other system(s) I still have problems like
> this: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-mips/msg_00571.xml
> I know that the bug http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171486 is fixed with the new binutils-config but I still
> don't get a vmlinux on this system because of the same error as in comment 7 of this bug
> (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171486#c7). And this all happened after switching to gcc-4.1...
>
> But I'll try to do it now and see if it will break.
Re-run binutils-config manually, as this will fix the ldscripts bug, and then
source /etc/profile. Binutils-config doesn't do this automatically, so it's
caught a few people off guard.
Second, whenever you use an older config on a newer kernel, _always_ check the
config to make sure it didn't flip something off. Things changed dramatically
from .17 to .20, and relying on oldconfig alone isn't recommended. I usually
run through menuconfig and just check the categories myself.
That all said, nested exceptions sometimes point at ARCS bugs. You may have an
out-of-date PROM. Unfortunately, we're not sure which PROMs are out-of-date,
and which ones aren't.
--Kumba
--
Gentoo/MIPS Team Lead
"Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands
do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere." --Elrond
--
gentoo-mips@gentoo.org mailing list
^ permalink raw reply [relevance 99%]
Results 1-1 of 1 | reverse | options above
-- pct% links below jump to the message on this page, permalinks otherwise --
2007-06-10 14:35 [gentoo-mips] Problems with mips-sources-2.6.20 Mathias W.
2007-06-10 14:41 ` Stephen P. Becker
2007-06-10 15:23 ` Mathias W.
2007-06-10 17:16 99% ` Kumba
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox