On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 06:14:35PM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
> The newest toolchain bump breaks OpenRISC start-up under QEMU: The console is
> now completely silent. Steps to reproduce the hang:
>
>
> CONTAINER_GCC13=bdfdd5effcc169ebf8a9df2f1a5956ef34549682f78b450a97aceea2afd76f7a
>
> CONTAINER_GCC14=fa35adeae1ab49b4dc09fc3bf4d68f92541a0d1f41e0df91a4879fd331e4b592
> CONTAINER_BASE=ghcr.io/barebox/barebox/barebox-ci@sha256:fa35adeae1a
>
> export CONTAINER=${CONTAINER_BASE}@sha256:${CONTAINER_GCC14}
> export LG_BUILDDIR=build-openrisc
> ./scripts/container.sh ./MAKEALL -a openrisc -O $LG_BUILDDIR
> ./scripts/container.sh pytest --lg-env test/openrisc/generic_defconfig.yaml
> \
> --interactive
>
> Running the same steps, but with the older toolchain boots successfully:
>
> export CONTAINER=${CONTAINER_BASE}@sha256:${CONTAINER_GCC13}
> export LG_BUILDDIR=build-openrisc
> git checkout v2024.08.0
> ./scripts/container.sh ./MAKEALL -a openrisc -O $LG_BUILDDIR
> ./scripts/container.sh pytest --lg-env test/openrisc/generic_defconfig.yaml
> \
> --interactive
>
> The hang happens somewhere before the jump to _start in
> arch/openrisc/cpu/start.S.
> Until that's fixed, let's pin the OpenRISC GCC version to the old v13.1.0.
>
> Cc: Stafford Horne <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <[email protected]>
> ---
> @Stafford, do you have an idea what could cause this?
Hi I am not sure about this, no new changes in the or1k-linux toolchain that I
know about. I will try to reproduce and see what is going wrong.
-Stafford
