[Avila] Madwifi

[Loft]

Loft wrote:
> Chris Lang wrote:
>
> Thanks for the up-to-the-second update with revision number! That's 
> good to know.
>
> Anyone wanting to build previous versions of madwifi-ng with a later 
> gcc that barfs on the  -mshort-load-bytes can just edit/sed that to 
> -malignment-traps.
>
Ok 5:31 AM is still a little early on the East Coast.

That's in the file hal/public/xscale-le-elf.inc or xscale-be-elf.inc if 
building Big Endian.

> Cheers,
>
> Tom
>
>
>> You are right in seeing that the option "-short-load-bytes" is 
>> decprecated, however it has not been removed from the makefile by 
>> madwifi until today. My suggestion would be to either use the madwifi 
>> from the BSP or if you would like to build the bleeding edge version 
>> use the latest revision witch is r1644 which was just fixed today in 
>> the morning.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris L
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Support" <Support at powernoc.net>
>> To: "Avila" <avila at lists.unixstudios.net>
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 10:52 AM
>> Subject: [Avila] Madwifi
>>
>>
>>> Hi list,
>>> If any of you are using madwifi for the Avila boards.. What version 
>>> of gcc are you using to compile it for arm. I have ran into this 
>>> error..
>>>
>>> cc1: error: invalid option `short-load-bytes'
>>>
>>> I googled it and found that it was depreciated...but still
>>>
>>> aliosa27:/powernoc/madwifi-ng-r1526-20060424/madwifi-ng-r1526-20060424# 
>>> make KERNELPATH=/root/snapgear/linux-2.6.x/ CC=arm-linux-gcc
>>> Checking requirements... ok.
>>> Checking kernel configuration... ok.
>>> if [ -d .svn ]; then \
>>>        ver=`svnversion -nc . | sed -e 's/^[^:]*://;s/[A-Za-z]//'`; \
>>> elif [ -s SNAPSHOT ]; then \
>>>        ver=`sed -e '/^Revision: */!d;s///;q' SNAPSHOT`; \
>>> else \
>>>        ver=`date +%F`; \
>>> fi; \
>>> echo "#define SVNVERSION \"$ver\"" > svnversion.h
>>> mkdir -p ./symbols
>>> for i in ./ath_hal ./net80211 ath_rate/sample ./ath; do \
>>>        make -C $i || exit 1; \
>>> done
>>> make[1]: Entering directory 
>>> `/powernoc/madwifi-ng-r1526-20060424/madwifi-ng-r152 
>>> 6-20060424/ath_hal'
>>> make -C /root/snapgear/linux-2.6.x/ 
>>> SUBDIRS=/powernoc/madwifi-ng-r1526-20060424/ 
>>> madwifi-ng-r1526-20060424/ath_hal 
>>> MODVERDIR=/powernoc/madwifi-ng-r1526-20060424/ 
>>> madwifi-ng-r1526-20060424/ath_hal/../symbols modules
>>> make[2]: Entering directory `/root/snapgear/linux-2.6.x'
>>>  CC [M] 
>>> /powernoc/madwifi-ng-r1526-20060424/madwifi-ng-r1526-20060424/ath_hal/ 
>>> ah_osdep.o
>>> cc1: error: invalid option `short-load-bytes'
>>> make[3]: *** 
>>> [/powernoc/madwifi-ng-r1526-20060424/madwifi-ng-r1526-20060424/ath_ 
>>> hal/ah_osdep.o] Error 1
>>> make[2]: *** 
>>> [_module_/powernoc/madwifi-ng-r1526-20060424/madwifi-ng-r1526-20060 
>>> 424/ath_hal] Error 2
>>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/snapgear/linux-2.6.x'
>>> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
>>> make[1]: Leaving directory 
>>> `/powernoc/madwifi-ng-r1526-20060424/madwifi-ng-r1526              
>>> -20060424/ath_hal'
>>> make: *** [modules] Error 1
>>>
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