Re: [coreboot] SimNOW V2 LAB problem

[Myles Watson]

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> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 10:34 AM
> To: Jordan Crouse
> Cc: Myles Watson; [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: SimNOW V2 LAB problem
>
> Good News I just tried coreboot-v3 with the same system and it does
> compile...

Yes.  It's weird.  I can even compile v2 with an identical toolchain
(release versions) on my x86_64 box.

Here's the original thread.

http://coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2008-February/029993.html

Thanks,
Myles
>
> Marc Karasek
> MTS
> Sun Microsystems
> mailto:[e-mail]
> ph:770.360.6415
>
> Jordan Crouse wrote:
> > On 09/05/08 11:41 -0400, Marc Karasek wrote:
> > > Jordan,
> > >
> > > I d/l buildrom to my notebook to build a 32bit version to try it with
> > > SimNOW.  It compiles but gets a linker error :
> > > <coreboot: section `.ram' can't be allocated in segment 0>
> > > Any thoughts on what could be causing this???
> >
> > This is from coreboot itself?  That sounds really evil.
> > We clearly have some major toolchain churn here.
> > > Marc
> > >
> > > Marc Karasek
> > > MTS
> > > Sun Microsystems
> > > mailto:[e-mail]
> > > ph:770.360.6415
> > >
> > > Jordan Crouse wrote:
> > > > On 08/05/08 20:32 -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 03:52:21PM -0600, Myles Watson wrote:
> > > > > > > Disregard my feeble wanderings..  I was thinking about my attempt
>
> to
> > > > > > > move busybox to 1.10.1 and the problems I was seeing there.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I think though the two are related.  Seems that uClibc 0.9.29 no
>
> longer
> > > > > > > supports the toolchain wrappers for -nostdlib and forcing a linking
> > > > > > > with
> > > > > > > native tools (gcc/binutils) and a compiled uClibc library.  This
>
> was
> > > > > > > pulled in 0.9.22 according to the uclibc FAQ.  Maybe it was just a
>
> one
> > > > > > > off that FC5 still worked.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > Strange.  It worked for 0.9.28 as well.  Those are the two versions
>
> I've
> > > > > > used in buildrom.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Ward: You've used lab haven't you?  What toolchain do you use?
> > > > >
> > > > > Yep, I've got LAB systems running. I build on gNewsense deltad
>
> typically,
> > > > > which is basically Ubuntu Dapper, 32 bit.
> > > >
> > > > It might be time for us to ping the uClibc / busybox teams for some
> > > > guidance.
> > > >
> > > > Jordan