I compile buildroot with attached config for SAMA5D3 ARM CPU. When I enable EABIHF and VFPv3-D16 (I test all combination of VFP) nodejs always crash with illegal instruction. I test many combination of version buildroot but always crash. But I found solution. When I compile nodejs ouside buidroot but using buildroot toolchain. All works perfect. When I backtrace and disassemble code I found that nodejs crash here: 0x0073ddec <+160>: vldr d17, [r2] If I understand this well that when I compile for VFPv3-D16 there should not be register D17 used. This generate illegal instruction. When I use this configure: export CC=arm-buildroot-linux-uclibcgnueabihf-gcc export CXX=arm-buildroot-linux-uclibcgnueabihf-g++ export CC_host="gcc -m32" export CXX_host="g++ -m32" /configure --prefix=../install --dest-cpu=arm --cross-compiling --dest-os=linux --with-arm-float-abi=hard --with-arm-fpu=vfpv3-d16 I mean then inside buidroot is to configure passed wrong options with-arm-fpu=vfpv3-d16. Don't hestiate contact me. Dan
URL form my buildrootconfig https://drive.google.com/open?id=1gvl2QoB-F1lK1mJPjnj1U2hsE9G-QlQT
It seems like the nodejs build system is overriding the mfpu flag, and OpenEmbedded has a patch to remove this logic, see https://github.com/openembedded/meta-openembedded/blob/master/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/nodejs/nodejs/0007-v8-don-t-override-ARM-CFLAGS.patch. Could you try to apply this patch to nodejs, and see if it fixes the issue for you ?
Yes I can. I test it and report back.
I have submitted a fix at https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1201811/
Fixed by https://git.buildroot.org/buildroot/commit/?id=f3c80d711c8954e408397f7a18fb9fdaaf42d773
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