[meta-xilinx] [PATCH] binutils: Rebase microblaze patches for binutils v2.30

[Manjukumar Harthikote Matha]

Hi Nathan,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: meta-xilinx-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:meta-xilinx-
> bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Nathan Rossi
> Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2018 6:33 AM
> To: Alejandro Enedino Hernandez Samaniego <alejandr at xilinx.com>
> Cc: meta-xilinx at yoctoproject.org
> Subject: Re: [meta-xilinx] [PATCH] binutils: Rebase microblaze patches for binutils
> v2.30
> 
> On 8 March 2018 at 11:15, Alejandro Enedino Hernandez Samaniego
> <alejandro.enedino.hernandez-samaniego at xilinx.com> wrote:
> > oe-core has upgraded binutils to v2.30, which caused some of our
> > patches to fail, rebase these along with other minimal changes to
> > avoid these errors and provide compatibility with latest oe-core.
> 
> Unfortunately your mail client or something has mangled your email by trashing the
> whitespacing. Because the binutils patches have mixed indentation its quite hard to
> demangle them.
> 
> error: patch failed:
> meta-xilinx-bsp/recipes-microblaze/binutils/binutils%.bbappend:1
> error: meta-xilinx-bsp/recipes-microblaze/binutils/binutils%.bbappend:
> patch does not apply
> error: patch failed:
> meta-xilinx-bsp/recipes-microblaze/binutils/binutils-2.29/0004-Fix-relaxation-of-
> assembler-resolved-references.patch:28
> error: meta-xilinx-bsp/recipes-microblaze/binutils/binutils-2.29/0004-Fix-
> relaxation-of-assembler-resolved-references.patch:
> patch does not apply
> error: patch failed:
> meta-xilinx-bsp/recipes-microblaze/binutils/binutils-2.29/0005-Fixup-MicroBlaze-
> debug_loc-sections-after-linker-rel.patch:25
> error: meta-xilinx-bsp/recipes-microblaze/binutils/binutils-2.29/0005-Fixup-
> MicroBlaze-debug_loc-sections-after-linker-rel.patch:
> patch does not apply
> 
> 
> However I went ahead and rebased the binutils git trees these patches are
> formatted from.
> 
> https://github.com/nathanrossi/binutils-gdb/tree/microblaze/2.30/rebased
> 
> I also took into account the oe binutils patches, which should avoid any issues with
> fuzzing (since warnings are now generated on fuzz,
> http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-
> core/commit/?id=5133fd46bccf14e21680f8d94e952914edccb113).
> 
> However I have only been able to test the update properly on MicroBlaze machines
> (where there are no regressions) and was unable to get zcu102 to boot with its
> PMU firmware (issues with qemu-xilinx and glibc 2.27? and or newer qemu-xilinx
> versions not booting).
> 
> I pushed a unfinished work in progress commit which contains the patches exported
> from the above binutils ref, https://github.com/nathanrossi/meta-
> xilinx/commit/d0e57b48add1f26a0b7931e41e340666586d409e
> 
> Unfortunately I haven't had the chance to sort out the zcu102 regression or test on
> a build machine which does not have issues building the current version of qemu-
> xilinx in meta-xilinx.
> 

We will start looking on master in upcoming weeks and check what is breaking, will keep you posted on mailing list

Thanks,
Manju