Re: [oe] [PATCH 0/5] Misc updates for EZX bits in OE
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:39:00 -0700 Khem Raj wrote: > On (25/03/10 18:19), Antonio Ospite wrote: [...] > > Note that although ezx-gen-blob builds fine now, it seems to have issues > > with > > GCC 4.4: the binary size is about 300KiB instead of the expected 64KiB, if > > anyone has a clue please let me know. > > I can help you here. If you can give me the two images with symbols and > your linking script it uses. Secondly are you using same binutils/ld in > both cases ? > I'll dig for an older toolchain in order to replicate the two scenarios, and get back here to get your help. Many thanks for your offer Khem. Regards, Antonio -- Antonio Ospite http://ao2.it PGP public key ID: 0x4553B001 A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? pgp1Ax5gx7Ppj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [oe] [PATCH 0/5] Misc updates for EZX bits in OE
On (25/03/10 18:19), Antonio Ospite wrote: > Hi, > > here are some updates for EZX bits in OE. > > With these changes we have a working image to experiment with ts27010mux > driver and ezxd, no fso support yet. Tested on Motorola A780. > > Note that although ezx-gen-blob builds fine now, it seems to have issues with > GCC 4.4: the binary size is about 300KiB instead of the expected 64KiB, if > anyone has a clue please let me know. I can help you here. If you can give me the two images with symbols and your linking script it uses. Secondly are you using same binutils/ld in both cases ? -Khem
Re: [oe] [PATCH 0/5] Misc updates for EZX bits in OE
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:17:24 +0100 Antonio Ospite wrote: > Here are more details: > A gcc-4.1.2 toolchain[1] produces the expected result, > the current gcc-4.4.2 toolchain[2] from 'minimal' distro does not. > Forgot the refs in previous mail even if they were in the attached script. And I hope the attached 600KB didn't annoy people _too_much_ Regards, Antonio [1] http://ezxdev.org/qtopia/sdk/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi-4.1.2.tar.bz2 [2] http://people.openezx.org/ao2/deploy/sdk/minimal-dev-snapshot-20100323-x86_64-linux-armv5te-linux-gnueabi-toolchain.tar.bz2 -- Antonio Ospite http://ao2.it PGP public key ID: 0x4553B001 A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? pgpydSzMWhG1P.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [oe] [PATCH 0/5] Misc updates for EZX bits in OE
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:17:24 +0100 Antonio Ospite wrote: > On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:39:00 -0700 > Khem Raj wrote: > > > On (25/03/10 18:19), Antonio Ospite wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > here are some updates for EZX bits in OE. > > > > > > With these changes we have a working image to experiment with ts27010mux > > > driver and ezxd, no fso support yet. Tested on Motorola A780. > > > > > > Note that although ezx-gen-blob builds fine now, it seems to have issues > > > with > > > GCC 4.4: the binary size is about 300KiB instead of the expected 64KiB, if > > > anyone has a clue please let me know. > > > > I can help you here. If you can give me the two images with symbols and > > your linking script it uses. Secondly are you using same binutils/ld in > > both cases ? > > > > Here are more details: > A gcc-4.1.2 toolchain[1] produces the expected result, > the current gcc-4.4.2 toolchain[2] from 'minimal' distro does not. > Hi Khem, would you be able to take a look at this? The attachments I sent in the old mail are still available here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openembedded/31488/focus=31520 Thanks, Antonio > I am using the very ld the toolchain provides, so I they are > different, and I noted than the 4.4.2 one gives this warning: > .../arm-oe-linux-gnueabi/bin/ld: > warning: section `.bss' type changed to PROGBITS > > The problem seems to rise during linking indeed, the size difference > of .o files produced by the two toolchains is ~ 3 KiB overall, it does > not seem to justify the bump I have after linking to more than 200KiB. > > I am attaching here the two binaries before stripping, but also some > scripts to easily recreate the entire scenario, since I am not sure of > what you exactly need to find out what's happening. > The command used for linking is attached as well. > > Thanks, >Antonio > -- Antonio Ospite http://ao2.it PGP public key ID: 0x4553B001 A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? pgp8y2SGASU9w.pgp Description: PGP signature
