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

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

[Brian S. Park]

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.

Brian

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

[Anatolij Gustschin]

Hi,

On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:11:28 -0700
"Brian S. Park" <brian.park@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

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

[Brian S. Park]

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

[Brian S. Park]

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

[Brian S. Park]

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

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear "Brian S. Park",

In message <4E80BC71.4000802@corelis.com> you 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

Well, you fail to tell us how exactly you "comment out" this line, but
apparently exactly this is your problem.  If you just remove this
line, like this:

index d10f748..e5a17a6 100644
--- a/include/configs/walnut.h
+++ b/include/configs/walnut.h
@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@
 #define CONFIG_PHY_ADDR                1       /* PHY address                  */
 #define CONFIG_HAS_ETH0                1
 
-#define CONFIG_RTC_DS174x      1       /* use DS1743 RTC in Walnut     */
 
 /*
  * Commands additional to the ones defined in amcc-common.h

you would get another type of build errors:

-> ./MAKEALL walnut
Configuring for walnut board...
common/libcommon.o: In function `do_date':
/home/wd/git/u-boot/work/common/cmd_date.c:60: undefined reference to `rtc_reset'
/home/wd/git/u-boot/work/common/cmd_date.c:63: undefined reference to `rtc_get'
/home/wd/git/u-boot/work/common/cmd_date.c:72: undefined reference to `rtc_set'
/home/wd/git/u-boot/work/common/cmd_date.c:81: undefined reference to `rtc_get'
net/libnet.o: In function `SntpHandler':
/home/wd/git/u-boot/work/net/sntp.c:70: undefined reference to `rtc_set'
make: *** [u-boot] Error 1


...which are pretty much self-explanatory.

By also disabling the "date" and "sntp" commands you would get:

-> ./MAKEALL walnut
Configuring for walnut board...
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 218714   17552   42532  278798   4410e ./u-boot

--------------------- SUMMARY ----------------------------
Boards compiled: 1
----------------------------------------------------------


> 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.

The problem must be with your own changes to the config file,
especially with your way to "comment out" the #define.


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear "Brian S. Park",

In message <4E80BF3D.8050801@corelis.com> you wrote:
>
> 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.

The "tool that generates u-boot.lds" is the standard C preprocessor.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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

[Brian S. Park]

Thank you for the information. I'm just re-learning my way around 
u-boot. I appreciate your comments and pointers. Last time I used 
u-boot, it did not use the current method for configuration and I was 
able to us // to comment stuff out in the configuration header file.

Thank you and you guys rock!

Brian

On 9/26/2011 11:44 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear "Brian S. Park",
>
> In message<4E80BF3D.8050801@corelis.com>  you wrote:
>> 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.
> The "tool that generates u-boot.lds" is the standard C preprocessor.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>


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