[U-Boot] Microblaze and Sparc boards are broken because of common timer func

[Rob Herring]

On 11/12/2013 06:32 AM, Michal Simek wrote:
> Hi Masahiro,
> 
> On 11/12/2013 10:04 AM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>> Hello Michal
>> 
>> 
>>> This should be fixed by this patch - at least for microblaze.
>>> 
>>> commit 65ba7add0d609bbd035b8d42fafdaf428ac24751 Author: Rob
>>> Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com> Date:   Fri Nov 8 08:40:43
>>> 2013 -0600
>>> 
>>> time: add weak annotation to timer_read_counter declaration
>>> 
>>> A weak annotation is needed in order to prevent link errors
>>> when get_ticks is overridden. This fixes sandbox build.
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>
>> 
>> No. I tried both the current u-boot/master and commit
>> 65ba7add0d, but Microblaze board failed with the same error
>> message.
>> 
> 
> Look at this log - uboot section. 
> http://www.monstr.eu/wiki/doku.php?id=log:2013-11-12_13_29_22
> 
> Which toolchain do you use?

It builds for me with 4.8.0 from kernel.org, but I had to disable
systemace driver otherwise I get this error:

/opt/gcc-4.8.0-nolibc/microblaze-linux/bin/microblaze-linux-gcc  -g
-Os   -D__KERNEL__ -DCONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE=0x29000000
-I/home/rob/proj/git/u-boot-arm/include -fno-builtin -ffreestanding
-nostdinc -isystem
/opt/gcc-4.8.0-nolibc/microblaze-linux/bin/../lib/gcc/microblaze-linux/4.8.0/include
-pipe  -ffixed-r31 -D__microblaze__ -mno-xl-soft-mul -mno-xl-soft-div
-mxl-barrel-shift -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fno-stack-protector
-Wno-format-nonliteral -Wno-format-security -fstack-usage     -o
systemace.o systemace.c -c
systemace.c: In function 'ace_readw':
systemace.c:70:1: warning: stack usage computation not supported for
this target [enabled by default]
 }
 ^
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:2499: Error: operation combines symbols in different
segments
{standard input}:2500: Error: operation combines symbols in different
segments
{standard input}:2503: Error: operation combines symbols in different
segments
{standard input}:2504: Error: operation combines symbols in different
segments
{standard input}:2509: Error: operation combines symbols in different
segments
{standard input}:2510: Error: operation combines symbols in different
segments
{standard input}:2519: Error: operation combines symbols in different
segments
{standard input}:2520: Error: operation combines symbols in different
segments
{standard input}:2523: Error: operation combines symbols in different
segments
{standard input}:2524: Error: operation combines symbols in different
segments
{standard input}:2533: Error: operation combines symbols in different
segments
{standard input}:2534: Error: operation combines symbols in different
segments
{standard input}:2537: Error: operation combines symbols in different
segments
{standard input}:2538: Error: operation combines symbols in different
segments
{standard input}:2543: Error: operation combines symbols in different
segments
{standard input}:2544: Error: operation combines symbols in different
segments
{standard input}:2553: Error: operation combines symbols in different
segments
{standard input}:2554: Error: operation combines symbols in different
segments
make[3]: *** [systemace.o] Error 1

Rob