Re: [LinuxBIOS] Complete and generic 32bit/64bit support

[Ward Vandewege]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 04:29:43PM -0700, Myles Watson wrote:
> I tested it using the amd serengeti_cheetah LAB (64-bit) platform in buildrom
>
> With mkelfimage 2.5 using bzImage (vmlinux doesn't work)
> Payload takes 901210 Bytes (880 KBytes) in ROM:
>
> With mkelfimage 2.7 and Yinghai's patch using bzImage
> Payload takes 900919 Bytes (879 KBytes) in ROM:
>
> With mkelfimage 2.7 and Yinghai's patch using vmlinux
> Payload takes 770726 Bytes (752 KBytes) in ROM:

Wow! That's a very large difference.

Your patch seems ok, except it does not pass -fno-stack-protector through to
mkelfimage anymore, which breaks the build on modern Debian based systems.

Can you fix that?

Thanks,
Ward.