Re: [coreboot] CB won't boot with changed folder name.

[Knut Kujat]

Patrick Georgi escribió:
> Am 01.02.2010 13:28, schrieb Patrick Georgi:
> > So there really is some difference at least in the ram stages of
> > fallback and normal. For closer analysis, I'd need the files' content.
>
> Knut, thank you for sending me the files off-list.

I hope thats really ok with you since the list refused my attachment for
understandable reasons.
> For some reason, there are differences in the memory map for those two
> builds.
>
> h8dmr:
> Program Header:
>     LOAD off    0x00001000 vaddr 0x00200000 paddr 0x00200000 align 2**12
>          filesz 0x0002e130 memsz 0x00030b3c flags rwx
>     LOAD off    0x00030000 vaddr 0x00240000 paddr 0x00240000 align 2**12
>          filesz 0x00000000 memsz 0x00018000 flags rw-
>    STACK off    0x00000000 vaddr 0x00000000 paddr 0x00000000 align 2**2
>          filesz 0x00000000 memsz 0x00000000 flags rwx
>
> h8qme:
> Program Header:
>     LOAD off    0x00001000 vaddr 0x00200000 paddr 0x00200000 align 2**12
>          filesz 0x0002d560 memsz 0x00048000 flags rwx
>    STACK off    0x00000000 vaddr 0x00000000 paddr 0x00000000 align 2**2
>          filesz 0x00000000 memsz 0x00000000 flags rwx
>
> So h8dmr zeroes out a larger chunk of memory - up to 0x258000, while the
> h8qme build only loads data up to 0x248000.
>
> I have absolutely no idea what makes the compiler behave that way on two
> practically identical builds, but I have seen that you use the
> distribution's compiler - we have no control over the changes they add,
> so we created crossgcc at some point.
>
> Maybe it helps to try to build with crossgcc (you can find that in
> util/crossgcc in your coreboot tree)
>
> Regards,
> Patrick

thx, for the tip, now installing crossgcc.

Thanks,
Knut Kujat.