I think bero's workaround that Michael Hope suggested, pass
-mno-unaligned-access to the kernel via KFLAGS may fix this. The
change we made on Android was:

http://review.android.git.linaro.org/#patch,sidebyside,1285,1,tasks/kernel.mk

On 7 December 2011 23:05, john stultz <johns...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>        Zach reminded me that this month is compressed, so a linaro+android
> kernel would be needed immediately for 11.12.  As Andrey is just ramping
> up in taking over for the Linaro Android kernel maintenance, I wanted to
> just get a kernel out, using the older kernel workflow, so that we had
> something current for 11.12.
>
> Anyway. This is straight from Andy Green's
> linaro-androidization-tracking branch, with a few small build fixes
> added on that I found in my testing and the base android_*_defconfig
> files.
>
> You can find the tree here:
> git://android.git.linaro.org/kernel/linaro-android.git 
> linaro-android-3.2-agreen-rebase
>
> The current sha is tagged as: linux-linaro-3.2-2011.12-0-android-0
>
> Known issues:
> There seems to be something in the androidization branch that is causing
> problems on beagle xm and origen. In my testing beagle xm kernel ends up
> hanging in mid-boot(after ~4 seconds).  And the orgien board doesn't
> show anything past "Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel". If
> I drop the androidization patches and go back to the v3.2-rc4 base, both
> kernels boot until the Android userland environment starts and falls
> over because the android features are missing. I mucked about for awhile
> on both of these tonight, but wasn't able to solve either of them, so
> I'd appreciate any help trying to narrow down what is wrong on Origen
> (beagle is apparently lower priority).
>
> Andy, one issue with the re-factored android patch tree: Its not very
> bisect-able. If I jump back to a topic branch, frequently there are
> missing dependencies that keep it from building. Any thoughts on how we
> can better chase down these sorts of issues?
>
> thanks
> -john
>
>
>
>



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