Is the MIPS kernel buildable from HEAD?

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Wed Aug 25 21:42:37 UTC 2010


In message: <32AB5C9615CC494997D9ABB1DB12783C024C8755B1 at SJ-EXCH-1.adaranet.com>
            Patrick Mahan <PMahan at adaranet.com> writes:
: Warner,
: 
: I'm trying to build it for a Cavium eval board EBT5800 -  and I am getting
: the following error(s):
: 
: Octeon ebt5800# bootoctlinux 20000000
: ELF file is 32 bit
: Skipping non LOAD program header (type 0x6)
: Skipping non LOAD program header (type 0x3)
: Skipping non LOAD program header (type 0x70000000)
: 
: 
: Have you seen this?

Yes.  What SDK are you using?

: This is trying to build it with OCTEON1-32 configuration file.

I've loaded both OCTEON1 and OCTEON1-32 on a uboot from the 1.9.0
SDK.  I've had OCTEON1 fail on an older uboot.

warner

: Thanks,
: 
: Patrick
: 
: > -----Original Message-----
: > From: M. Warner Losh [mailto:imp at bsdimp.com]
: > Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 2:13 PM
: > To: Patrick Mahan
: > Cc: freebsd-mips at FreeBSD.org
: > Subject: Re: Is the MIPS kernel buildable from HEAD?
: >
: > In message: <32AB5C9615CC494997D9ABB1DB12783C024C875590 at SJ-EXCH-
: > 1.adaranet.com>
: >             Patrick Mahan <PMahan at adaranet.com> writes:
: > : Is it possible to build the MIPS kernel from HEAD?  Or is the
: > : current development still external to the HEAD branch?
: >
: > Yes.  The tip of head is where the mips action is these days.  There
: > is no external development branch.
: >
: > There is one issue, however.  If you are building for one of the
: > 64-bit processors a 64-bit kernel, then the required userland won't
: > build.  There's still issues that need to be sorted out...
: >
: > Warner
: 
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