Greetings,
If anyone (besides me) is still using a Debian Potato based development machine, here's quick instructions to get things going:
There are a few places that call for a newer version of binutils (at least to handle the use of the movnti instruction in PIV builds)
Building Woody's binutils package from source will take care of it.
If you prefer not to change everything, The minimum impact approach seems to be:
1.fetch binutils source package from Woody. 2.unpack and apply Debian patch 3. chmod +x debian/rules 4. cd build-tree/binutils-2.12.90.0.1
do configure and make in opcodes. do configure, make, and make install in libiberty and bfd do configure --enable-shared, make, make install in binutils, and gas
All of that will go into /usr/local cd /usr/bin
mv as as.old (just in case) ln -s /usr/local/bin/as as
LinuxBIOS will now build successfully.
G'day, sjames