Re: [Xen-devel] [XEN PATCH v3 00/23] xen: Build system improvements

[Stewart Hildebrand <Stewart.Hildebrand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, February 26, 2020 6:34 AM, Anthony PERARD wrote:
>Patch series available in this git branch:
>https://xenbits.xen.org/git-http/people/aperard/xen-unstable.git 
>br.build-system-xen-v3
>
>v3:
>- new patches that do some cleanup or fix issues
>- have rework most patches, to have better commit message or change the coding
>  style, or fix issues that I've seen. There were some cases where CFLAGS were
>  missing.
>  See patch notes for details
>- introduce if_changed*. That plenty of new patches on top of what we had in 
>v2.
>  (those changes ignore CONFIG_LTO=y, I'll see about fixing that later)
>
>(There is more to come in order to use fixdep from Linux, but that's not ready)
>
>v2.1:
>- some fixes
>
>v2:
>Rather than taking Kbuild and making it work with Xen, the v2 takes the 
>opposite
>approach of slowly transforming our current build system into Kbuild. That have
>the advantage of keeping all the feature we have and making the patches much
>easier to review. Kconfig update is done in an other patch series.
>
>Hi,
>
>I have work toward building Xen (the hypervisor) with Linux's build system,
>Kbuild.
>
>The main reason for that is to be able to have out-of-tree build. It's annoying
>when a build fail because of the pvshim. Other benefit is a much faster
>rebuild, and `make clean` doesn't take ages, and better dependencies to figure
>out what needs to be rebuild.
>
>So, we are not there yet, but the series already contain quite a few
>improvement and cleanup. More patches are going to be added to the series.

Thanks for your efforts with this. With your br.build-system-xen-v3
branch, I'm having trouble doing an aarch64 build with early printk
enabled. I suspect the following unmerged patch that Julien authored
last September may have some helpful information:
https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2019-09/msg01207.html

I tried the following...

echo "CONFIG_DEBUG=y" > xen/arch/arm/configs/arm64_defconfig
make -C xen XEN_TARGET_ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- 
CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=zynqmp defconfig
make XEN_TARGET_ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- 
CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=zynqmp dist-xen

... but I was met with:
prelink.o:(.data+0x578): undefined reference to `early_puts'
aarch64-linux-gnu-ld: /home/stew/rpi/xen/xen/.xen-syms.0: hidden symbol 
`early_puts' isn't defined

Stew
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