Hi Joe,
Joe Holden wrote:
I am trying to build a rom with generic defaults for ALIX (although the same error appears regardless of mainboard/chipset combination,
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Linking out/rom16.o out/romlayout16.lds:707 cannot move location counter backwards (from 000000000000ca94 to 000000000000ca78)
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Can anyone confim this is actually the problem and it will go away if I build a more recent binutils?
The problem is indeed with your toolchain. I strongly recommend that you run make crossgcc in the top level coreboot source directory, which will then build a reference toolchain with known working components. The toolchain should be discovered automatically by the coreboot and SeaBIOS build systems. You can verify this by cat:ing the .xcompile file in the root source dir.
//Peter