On 03/07/18 12:25, James Hogan wrote:
On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 12:11:41PM -0800, Frank Rowand wrote:
I initially misread the patch description (and imagined an entirely different problem).
On 03/07/18 06:06, James Hogan wrote:
On dtb files which contain hyphens, the dt_S_dtb command to build the> dtb.S files (which allow DTB files to be built into the kernel) results> in errors like the following:> > bcm3368-netgear-cvg834g.dtb.S: Assembler messages:> bcm3368-netgear-cvg834g.dtb.S:5: Error: : no such section> bcm3368-netgear-cvg834g.dtb.S:5: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `-'> bcm3368-netgear-cvg834g.dtb.S:6: Error: unrecognized opcode `__dtb_bcm3368-netgear-cvg834g_begin:'> bcm3368-netgear-cvg834g.dtb.S:8: Error: unrecognized opcode `__dtb_bcm3368-netgear-cvg834g_end:'> bcm3368-netgear-cvg834g.dtb.S:9: Error: : no such section> bcm3368-netgear-cvg834g.dtb.S:9: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `-'
Please replace the following section:
This is due to the hyphen being used in symbol names. Replace all hyphens with underscores in the dt_S_dtb command to avoid this problem.
Quite a lot of dts files have hyphens, but its only a problem on MIPS where such files can be built into the kernel. For example when CONFIG_DT_NETGEAR_CVG834G=y, or on BMIPS kernels when the dtbs target is used (in the latter case it admitedly shouldn't really build all the dtb.o files, but thats a separate issue).
with:
cmd_dt_S_dtb constructs the assembly source to incorporate a devicetree FDT (that is, the .dtb file) as binary data in the kernel image. This assembly source contains labels before and after the binary data. The label names incorporate the file name of the corresponding .dtb file. Hyphens are not legal characters in labels, so transform all hyphens from the file name to underscores when constructing the labels.
Thanks, that is clearer.
I'll keep the paragraph about MIPS and the example configuration though, as I think its important information to reproduce the problem, and to justify why it wouldn't be appropriate to just rename the files (which was my first reaction).
Other than the part that says "its only a problem on MIPS". That is pedantically correct because no other architecture (that I am aware of, not that I searched) currently has a devicetree source file name with a hyphen in it, where that file is compiled into the kernel as an asm file. But it is potentially a problem on any architecture to it is misleading to label it as MIPS only.
Reviewed-by: Frank Rowand frowand.list@gmail.com
Thanks James