Re: building kernel with gcc-4.3.x

[Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 11:46:05PM +0100, Chris Steel wrote:
> Has anyone built a working kernel for ARM using gcc-4.3.x?
> 
> I can build a toolchain, kernel and rootfs using gcc 4.2.4, and
> everything runs fine under QEMU. However, when I update gcc to 4.3.x
> (I've tired 4.3.0 and 4.3.1) then everything still builds fine, but
> the kernel doesn't boot. I don't even get the first line of the kernel
> boot messages.
> 
> I'm using binutils 2.18, glibc 2.7, kernel 2.6.24 (I've tried 2.6.25.9
> too just in case, but I get the same result).
> 
> Anyone got any hints / patches?

Tried using the standard printascii-in-printk debugging hack?  Search
the linux-arm-kernel mailing list archives for 'printascii' to get the
idea.

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