[MPlayer-users] Transplant Error for MPlayer-1.0rc2

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 08:13:15PM +0800, wei chen wrote:
> Hi, guy
> 
> I try to Transplant MPlayer into my chip, but I bump up against
> difficulties of "FATAL: kernel too old Segmentation fault". so register the
> account to find some help. and My configure as follow:
> 
> CPU: S3C2416
> kernel: Linux 3.1.0
> cross compiler: gcc4.3.3 (crosstool-ng)
> MPlayer : MPlayer-1.0rc2
> 
> Error:
> FATAL: kernel too old
> Segmentation fault
> 
> so, who can help, or tell me how to fix it.

You will have to debug yourself.
While in principle it should work (assuming you used the correct
compiler flags etc.), I am not aware of anyone trying to run MPlayer on
ancient ARMv5 architecture hardware. The only stuff I have at hand is
even AMRv7 with NEON (though I admit those SoCs are not usually suitable
for truly embedded stuff that need lots of GPIO etc.)...
Moreover, the "FATAL: kernel too old" message comes from glibc, not
MPlayer, so your basic system installation seems to be broken in some
way.
(That is besides the point that using the 3.1 - not to mention 3.1.0 - kernel is
a really silly idea, 3.2 would at least be a long-term support kernel, and if 3.1 is
your only choice I'd strongly recommend to reconsider your choice of
platform, riding dead horses isn't a very good way to do things, as
popular as it seems to be in the embedded systems world).