From 1630dbbe7ad24e97f7cd07b0754668f9fdb2bbbf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Scott Rifenbark Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 10:22:30 -0700 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- documentation/ref-manual/migration.xml | 17 +++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'documentation/ref-manual/migration.xml') 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 @@ -2332,6 +2332,21 @@ of other recipes. + + 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 + patch. + The standard linux-yocto kernel source tree + already has a workaround for the same issue. + + + + For further details, please see + . + + Alternatively, you can switch back to GCC 4.9 or 4.8 by setting GCCVERSION in your configuration, @@ -2339,8 +2354,6 @@ GCCVERSION = "4.9%" - For further details, please see - . -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf