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| author |   Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com> | 2015-10-29 10:22:30 -0700 |
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| committer |   Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2015-10-29 22:05:36 +0000 |
| commit | 1630dbbe7ad24e97f7cd07b0754668f9fdb2bbbf (patch) | |
| tree | 9037482efe9355a40542af1a3afa63750b0b05c7 /documentation | |
| parent | 37677d691a78f136670fe3c3939568049728d673 (diff) | |
| download | openembedded-core-contrib-1630dbbe7ad24e97f7cd07b0754668f9fdb2bbbf.tar.gz | |
ref-manual: Applied a correction to the GCC 5 migration 2.0 section.
Added an exception and link to a patch the user should use if they
are using GCC 5 for specific ARM machine.
(From yocto-docs rev: 4f43b683cf4a078c6df4b8c6be59e6fb8702d265)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <srifenbark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | documentation/ref-manual/migration.xml | 17 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/migration.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/migration.xml index 3b86d9a4dc..a8701a52d7 100644 --- a/documentation/ref-manual/migration.xml +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/migration.xml @@ -2333,14 +2333,27 @@ </para> <para> + One important example is a fix for when the Linux kernel freezes at + boot time on ARM when built with GCC 5. + If you are using your own kernel recipe or source tree and + building for ARM, you will likely need to apply this + <ulink url='https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit?id=a077224fd35b2f7fbc93f14cf67074fc792fbac2'>patch</ulink>. + The standard <filename>linux-yocto</filename> kernel source tree + already has a workaround for the same issue. + </para> + + <para> + For further details, please see + <ulink url='https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-5/changes.html'></ulink>. + </para> + + <para> Alternatively, you can switch back to GCC 4.9 or 4.8 by setting <filename>GCCVERSION</filename> in your configuration, as follows: <literallayout class='monospaced'> GCCVERSION = "4.9%" </literallayout> - For further details, please see - <ulink url='https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-5/changes.html'></ulink>. </para> </section> |