Re: Failure to boot into cross built environment (iWMMXt NPTL EABI)

[Steven Newbury <s_j_newbury at yahoo dot co dot uk>]

--- Steven Newbury <s_j_newbury@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> --- Steven Newbury <s_j_newbury@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > --- Khem Raj <khem@mvista.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Steven Newbury wrote:
> > > > OK this is now confirmed.  I tried turning on oldabi support and
> booting
> > > into
> > > > another rootfs. That worked. Chrooting into my EABI environment gave
> the
> > > error
> > > > below.
> > > >   
> > > thats expected. EABI changes structure alignments and some structure 
> > > passing that happens between kernel and glibc
> > > will not match and you will have problems. Especially when kernel tried 
> > > to compare the size of the structures for sanity
> > > while catering system calls.
> > > 
> > > 
> > Except the exact same thing happens when I try booting directly into my
> pure
> > EABI environment with no old ABI anywhere.
> Above was with the 2.6.16 Linux kernel + patches
> 
> I have now tested 2.6.17 + (a lot less!) patches:
> Same thing happens, so I'm inclined to think something has gone wrong with my
> glibc build??? Perhaps missing a "when EABI build do something different"
> case?
>  I'll have a closer look.  Any help would be most welcome! :-)
> 
Statically linked "sash", built with the same toolchain; works fine if it makes
any difference.  I do find that a little odd...


Steve

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