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PostPosted: Sat Aug 20, 2016 6:04 pm    Post subject: [solved] qemu-arm in chroot: emerge doesn't start Reply with quote

Hi!

With some trouble and a lot of learning I got the chroot for arm running using this guide. I created with qemu-img a disk container, unpacked the arm stage3 tarball into it and mounted this container to /usr/armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi. After installing qemu-arm (static) to the root path of this environment and starting binfmt I tried to compile the system.

emerge -1u ncurses:

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Calculating dependencies... done!

The following packages are causing rebuilds:

  (sys-libs/ncurses-6.0-r1:0/6::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) causes rebuilds for:
    (sys-apps/util-linux-2.28:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
    (app-editors/nano-2.6.1:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
    (sys-apps/openrc-0.21.3:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
    (sys-apps/less-483-r1:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
  (net-firewall/iptables-1.6.0:0/11::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) causes rebuilds for:
    (sys-apps/iproute2-4.6.0:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)

And at this point it hangs. Qemu-arm runs with 100% of cpu-last on one core. Even if I let it working for a couple of hours, nothing changes.

My make.conf:
Code:
# CPU: 88F6810  http://www.marvell.com/embedded-processors/armada-38x/
# CPU: ARMv7 Cortex-A9 Single Core with NEON
# cpuinfo: ARMv7 Processor rev 1 (v7l)
# Features: swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls
# Ethernet: 2 x 1/2.5G bE
# PCIe: 3x PCIe 2.0 x1
# USB: 2x USB3, 1x USB2
# UART: 2x
# SATA: 2x SATA3
# Device Bus: 8/16 bit Device bus

# https://community.arm.com/groups/tools/blog/2013/04/15/arm-cortex-a-processors-and-gcc-command-lines
# Auto-Vectorizer: nur mit -O3 oder -Ofast (enthält -O3)
# aapcs=ABI standard
# keine Virtualisierung
# Architektur: armv7-a = Cortex-a9
#CFLAGS="-Ofast -march=armv7-a -mtune=cortex-a9 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CFLAGS="-Ofast -march=armv7-a -mtune=cortex-a9 -mfpu=neon-fp16 -mfloat-abi=hard -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
CHOST=armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="arm ~arm"
MAKEOPTS="-j13"
#EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs=12 --load-average=12"

# /var/tmp/portage
PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp/

# Distfiles-Directory
DISTDIR=/var/portage/distfiles

# Binaries
PKGDIR=${PORTDIR}/packages

AUTOCLEAN="yes"
FEATURES="-collision-protect sandbox buildpkg noman noinfo nodoc"
PORTAGE_NICENESS="3"

USE="${ARCH} -pam -acl -avahi -consolekit -cracklib -cron -dso -dv -emboss -fam -firefox -gdbm -gnome -ipv6 -ldap -libav -libcanberra -modemmanager -pm-utils -pulseaudio -qt-static -vlc -kde"

GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mneisen.org/ http://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/ http://gentoo.supp.name/ http://gentoo.krasko.sk/"


############### Zeug aus Cross-Compiling-Umgebung ##########
#CBUILD=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
#ARCH="arm"
#
#HOSTCC=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
#
#ROOT=/usr/${CHOST}/
#CCFULL=/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi/gcc-bin/4.9.3/armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi-gcc
##CCFULL=/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi/gcc-bin/5.4.0/armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi-gcc
#CC=${CCFULL}-gcc
#CXX=${CCFULL}-g++
#######################################

# Be sure we dont overwrite pkgs from another repo..
PKGDIR=${ROOT}packages/

ELIBC="glibc"

PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${ROOT}usr/lib/pkgconfig/"
#PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/"


Is there something misconfigured in my make.conf?


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PostPosted: Sat Aug 20, 2016 6:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

musv,

100% of one core is running the arm CPU emulator.

I suspect qemu-arm only emulates a single arm core. Look in /proc/cpuinfo.
Your emulated CPU BOGOmips may make your eyes water too.
Compare it to the target system.

Code:
MAKEOPTS="-j13"
should be
Code:
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
but its not building anything yet.

Allowing for the number of emulated cores you have and the BOGOmips drop, you can make a guess at how slow it will be.

In my experience 100% of a 3.4GHz core got me a 200MHz SPARC.
There is no reason to expect arm to be any better.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 21, 2016 9:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:
I suspect qemu-arm only emulates a single arm core.

Yes and no. Found out, if you have MAKEOPTS higher than one, then there are multiple qemu-arm processes.

But the problem was something different.

My idea was:
  • inside chroot just call: emerge foo bar
  • cross-compile from outside: ROOT=/usr/arm... CHOST=... armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi-emerge foo bar


This isn't working. For some reason I don't understand yet, emerge fails in this way and keeps hanging. Instead you need to set the full cross-compile environment in the chroot make.conf and modify some stuff if you want to compile inside the chroot. More clearly:
  • inside chroot: ROOT=/ CC=armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi-gcc CXX=armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi-g++ emerge foo bar
  • cross-compile from outside: armv7a-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi-emerge foo bar
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