Re: BCM4704 stopped booting with 4.4 (due to vmlinux size?)

On 16 June 2016 at 14:19, Manuel Lauss [off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 1:42 PM,  [off-list ref] wrote:

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On the other hand Paul also experiences some problems with his Linksys
WRT54GL (BCM5352E), the last stable kernel for him seems to be 3.18.

I have to calrify that a bit:
if I use prebuilt images from OpenWrt 15.05.1, they work out of the box (as you say, it's 3.18)
If I take prebuilt images from (LEDE|OpenWrt) trunk (which was 4.1 then), they do not boot.
However, if I clone the repo (which was used to build said trunk) and build it myself,
the images work fine. (kernel 4.1) [1]

Differences in toolchain perhaps? What versions of gcc, binutils do
you and LEDE/OpenWrt use?

When building LEDE, it first compiles toolchain and compiler and then
it uses them to compile all the software. It doesn't use host-provided
toolchain/gcc. So it shouldn't matter on what machine you build your
image (buildbot or locally). Right now LEDE's master uses gcc 5.3.0
and musl 1.1.14.

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Rafał