Hi Fabio
On Thu, 10 Jul 2025 at 17:16, Fabio Estevam <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Ilias, > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM Ilias Apalodimas > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Our last sync with the kernel was 5.1. Even that was a partial one > > as some patches from 4.x kernels were already missing making the > > transition to a modern kbuild infeasible. > > > > We are so out of sync now, that tracking the patches and backporting > > them one by one makes little sense and it's going to take ages. > > > > This is an attempt to sync up Makefile[.lib/.kbuild]. > > Unfortunately due to sheer amount of patches this is not easy to review, > > but that's what we decided during a community call. > > > > One of the biggest changes is get rid of partial linking entirely and > > build .a archives isntead of .o. > > We diaviate from the kernel on that. Instead of calling a custom script > > to create the archive symbol table, we call ar with rcTP (isntead of > > rcSTP) since we want a resulting archive that's sauble with the linker. > > > > The only affected platforms are PPC ones. Unfortunately I don't have any > > of them around to test, but the objdump of the resulting files -- > > arch/powerpc/lib/built-in.[oa] looks identical. > > > > Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas <[email protected]> > > This commit breaks the mx6sabresd_defconfig build on my Ubuntu 2022.04 > machine: > > $ make mx6sabresd_defconfig > HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep > HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o > YACC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c > LEX scripts/kconfig/zconf.lex.c > HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o > HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf > # > # configuration written to .config > # > $ make > scripts/kconfig/conf --syncconfig Kconfig > UPD include/config.h > CFG u-boot.cfg > GEN include/autoconf.mk > GEN include/autoconf.mk.dep > CFG spl/u-boot.cfg > GEN spl/include/autoconf.mk > make: *** arch/arm/mach-imx/: Is a directory. Stop. Thanks I'll try to reproduce it later today and let you know. Do you know if we build this defonconfig in the CI? Thanks /Ilias
