Re: [PATCH] powerpc: allow cross-compilation of ppc64 kernel

On Sat, 2015-11-07 at 12:35 +0100, Laurent Vivier wrote:

Le 07/11/2015 00:24, Scott Wood a écrit :

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On Fri, 2015-11-06 at 23:22 +0100, Laurent Vivier wrote:

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Le 06/11/2015 22:09, Scott Wood a écrit :

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On Thu, 2015-11-05 at 12:47 +0100, Laurent Vivier wrote:

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When I try to cross compile a ppc64 kernel, it generally
fails on the VDSO stage. This is true for powerpc64 cross-
compiler, but also when I try to build a ppc64le kernel
on a ppc64 host.

VDSO64L fails:

  VDSO64L arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/vdso64.so.dbg
/usr/bin/powerpc64-linux-gnu-ld: arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/sigtramp.o:
file class ELFCLASS64 incompatible with ELFCLASS32
/usr/bin/powerpc64-linux-gnu-ld: final link failed: File in wrong format

This fails because gcc calls "collect2" with
"--oformat elf32-powerpcle" with ppc64 objects, without the
"--oformat" ld works well because it use the format of the
first object as output format.

As this case is correctly managed to build the other kernel
objects, this patch replaces $(GCC) by $(LD) to generate the
VDSO objects.

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So at this point, I can:

1- either fix my compiler,
2- or fix the vdso64 linker command.

Thank you Scott. With the help of the comment from Segher, I can choose
#1 now :)

What distro/toolchain did you hit this on?

I actually wrote this same patch a while back, but from memory it broke in some
configurations. So I never merged it. I'll see if I can find my notes and work
out exactly why it didn't work, maybe we should merge it anyway, even though
the real bug is a toolchain bug.

cheers