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From: David Daney on 19 Jan 2010 20:10 myuboot(a)fastmail.fm wrote: > I got a link error when compiling 2 loadable kernel modules - > "endianness incompatible with that of the selected emulation". > > But both kernel and the kernel modules of error are in big endian. I > don't know what I should check or fix. Any suggestions? I checked the > endianess of the kernel by checking the elf header of vmlinux file, is > that the right way to do it? > > Below are the error info and the readelf output, showing both the kernel > and a kernel module are in big endian. > Thanks for your help. Andrew > > 1) error log > make -C /home/root123/sources/kernel/linux > CROSS_COMPILE=""/home/root123/sources/gcc3.4.3-be"/bin/mips-linux-" > M=/home/root123/sources/sdk/platform/src/linux/mxp/src modules > > LD [M] /home/root123/sources/sdk/platform/src/linux/mxp/src/mxpmod.o > /home/root123/sources/gcc3.4.3-be/bin/mips-linux-ld: > /home/root123/sources/sdk/platform/src/linux/mxp/src/mmxpcore.o: > compiled for a big endian system and target is little endian > /home/root123/sources/gcc3.4.3-be/bin/mips-linux-ld: > /home/root123/sources/sdk/platform/src/linux/mxp/src/mmxpcore.o: > endianness incompatible with that of the selected emulation > /home/root123/sources/gcc3.4.3-be/bin/mips-linux-ld: failed to merge > target specific data of file > /home/root123/sources/sdk/platform/src/linux/mxp/src/mmxpcore.o > make[13]: *** > [/home/root123/sources/sdk/platform/src/linux/mxp/src/mxpmod.o] Error 1 > Looks like a toolchain bug/configuration-problem. Hard to tell though as you didn't pass 'V=1' on the make invocation line. David Daney -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ |