Re: [jornada] Linux 2.4.27 on Jornada 720

From: Colin Sauze <cjs0_at_aber.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 00:50:28 +0100

Michael Gernoth wrote:

>On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 12:13:56PM +0200, Michael Gernoth wrote:
>
>
>>On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 02:19:38AM +0100, Colin Sauze wrote:
>>
>>
>>>What exactly is it in the framebuffer that doesn't work on newer
>>>compilers? It would be really nice to get this one sorted so we can
>>>dispense with the need to use gcc 2.95.
>>>
>>>
>>I have no idea. I only read it in the mailinglist-archive and my test
>>with a newer gcc leaded to a kernel hanging on "Configuring Jornada LCD"
>>(on the serial console).
>>
>>
>
>I just succeeded with gcc 3.3.2. Kernel -4 is now compiled with this
>version. It's available from:
>http://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~simigern/jornada-7xx/linux-2.4.27-vrs1-pxa1-j720-4/
>And it has a working framebuffer :-)
>The initrd needs to be updated to initrd-2.4.27-3.3.2.gz
>
>As toolchain I used the handhelds.org one:
>ftp://ftp.handhelds.org/projects/toolchain/arm-linux-gcc-3.3.2.tar.bz2
>
>If you try to build with gcc 3.3.2 be warned that make clean is
>not enough when switching from a different compiler-version. You need
>to do a make distclean (and save your .config before). If you don't do
>this, the kernel will most likely hang after the "POSIX conformance
>testing by Unifix" line.
>
>
Did you have to change anything else or does it "just work"?
Received on Mon May 16 2005 - 19:53:21 EDT

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