[U-Boot] Building u-boot for Walnut board (PPC 405GPr)

Brian S. Park brian.park at corelis.com
Mon Sep 26 20:06:53 CEST 2011


Sorry to keep relying to my self.
It seems that the tool that generates u-boot.lds does not like // in the 
header file and putting it in the u-boot.lds file.

I started using /* */ instead and it compiles OK now.

Thanks.

Brian

On 9/26/2011 10:54 AM, Brian S. Park wrote:
> I found my problem.
>
> My board, though based on walnut board, does not have real time clock. 
> So, I have to disable RTC support in u-boot. However, as soon as I 
> comment out
>
> #define CONFIG_RTC_DS174x    1    /* use DS1743 RTC in Walnut    */
>
> in walnut.h, line 68, I get build error.
>
> [root at new-linuxdev u-boot-2011.06]# ./MAKEALL walnut
> Configuring for walnut board...
> ppc_4xx-ld:u-boot.lds:1: ignoring invalid character `#' in expression
> ppc_4xx-ld:u-boot.lds:1: parse error
> make: *** [u-boot] Error 1
> ppc_4xx-size: './u-boot': No such file
>
> --------------------- SUMMARY ----------------------------
> Boards compiled: 1
> Boards with warnings or errors: 1 ( walnut )
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> [root at new-linuxdev u-boot-2011.06]#
>
> I can figure my way out if it's a code problem. This, however, seems 
> like a configuration issue and I'm still a newbie when it comes to 
> u-boot configuration issue. It seems to have changed a lot since last 
> time I looked at u-boot a few years ago.
>
> I'd appreciate some guidance.
>
> Thank you in advance for any help and thank you all for putting such 
> wonderful software in public domain.
>
> Brian
>
> On 9/26/2011 9:20 AM, Brian S. Park wrote:
>> Thanks for the reply.
>> I was in the process updating ELDK from 4.1 to 4.2 and must have had 
>> something screwed up. I tried again Today and it compiles without error.
>>
>> Thanks for looking into this and helping a newbie.
>>
>> Brian
>>
>> On 9/24/2011 3:05 AM, Anatolij Gustschin wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:11:28 -0700
>>> "Brian S. Park"<brian.park at corelis.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I'm currently working on updating the firmware on our custom board
>>>> (based on IBM walnut board) and tried to build the latest released
>>>> u-boot 2011.06 using ELDK4.2.
>>>> Using the fresh source code extracted from u-boot-2011.06.tar.bz2,  I
>>>> did "make walnut_config" and then "make". But I get the following 
>>>> error.
>>>>
>>>> ppc_4xx-ld:u-boot.lds:1: parse error
>>>> make: *** [u-boot] Error 1
>>>>
>>>> All of the code compiles. I think it's a linker error but I have no 
>>>> idea
>>>> how to resolve the problem.
>>>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>> $ wget -c ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/u-boot-2011.06.tar.bz2
>>> $ tar xf u-boot-2011.06.tar.bz2
>>> $ cd u-boot-2011.06/
>>> $ export CROSS_COMPILE=ppc_4xx-
>>> $ ./MAKEALL walnut
>>> Configuring for walnut board...
>>>     text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>>>   219550   19468   42544  281562   44bda ./u-boot
>>>
>>> --------------------- SUMMARY ----------------------------
>>> Boards compiled: 1
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> There is no such problem with walnut board in the v2011.06 release.
>>> Please double-check our source.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> Anatolij
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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