[U-Boot] checkarmreloc error for AArch64 (using vexpress_aemv8a_defconfig)

[Albert ARIBAUD]

Hello David,

On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 22:13:32 +0000, Chou, David J
<david.j.chou at intel.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using u-boot-2015.07-rc2, using  vexpress_aemv8a_defconfig as following:
> $ make vexpress_aemv8a_juno_defconfig ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-android-
> $ make all ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-android-
> 
> And I  got  "make: *** [checkarmreloc] Error 1" at the end of the build as following:
> 
>   OBJCOPY examples/standalone/hello_world.srec
>   OBJCOPY examples/standalone/smc911x_eeprom.srec
>   OBJCOPY examples/standalone/hello_world.bin
>   OBJCOPY examples/standalone/smc911x_eeprom.bin
>   LDS     u-boot.lds
>   LD      u-boot
> u-boot contains unexpected relocations: R_AARCH64_ABS64
> R_AARCH64_RELATIVE
> make: *** [checkarmreloc] Error 1
> 
> But it generated an ELF 64-bit LSB executable, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked u-boot.  Does this u-boot still useful or how to fix the issue?
> 
> This  build error has been mentioned in http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2015-February/206440.html , has it been fixe?

This error does not appear with the aarmch64 toolchain used by buildman
or with the aarmch64 toolchain from Ubuntu repositories, either for
v2015.07-rc2 or for current top of branch u-boot[-arm]/master.

Is the code you are building pure v2015.07-rc3 or does it contain any
local changes?

> Thanks  a lot for your help.
> 
> Best Regards,
> David Chou

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.