tools requirement for buildrom

[qchwu]

I use coreboot -v2 to build rom for AMD's LX800. I can't make it completely. Every time,there have errors during make. the red hat linux V9 is used in my project. 
Now,my question is what environment and tools are required to build the coreboot.
1. The linux kernel version:
2. the GCC version:
3. make version:
4. SVN version:
5. Any other tools are required.
5. Are the latest tools better than older?

thanks:
chenghu

[Russell Whitaker]

On Wed, 28 May 2008, qchwu wrote:
> I use coreboot -v2 to build rom for AMD's LX800. I can't make it completely.
> Every time,there have errors during make. the red hat linux V9 is used
> in my project.
> Now,my question is what environment and tools are required to build the
> coreboot.

The environment and tools need not be the latest and greatest.
To test my answer I checked out coreboot-v2 and ran abuild.
Results:
   5 fails due to:
       make[1]: iasl: Command not found
   and the known via-cn failure.

(ok, so where do I find iasl?)
> The linux kernel version:

If you have a really old kernel chances are everything else is old, too.
   So you might concider installing a somewhat newer distro.
> the GCC version:

gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: i686-pc-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../gcc-4.1.2/configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared
--enable-languages=c,c++,pascal --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.2

Gnu pascal uses gcc's backend. As I recall from the pascal mailing list
there were some problems with the gcc-3.x series that went away when 
gcc-4.1 came out.

Incidently, gcc-4.1.2 is the last GPL version 2 release.
> make:

make -v
GNU Make 3.81  ...

Earlier versions of make are known to have problems.
> svn:

I have 1.4.4.  Don't know anything about the older versions.
> Any other tools are required.

ld -v
GNU ld (Linux/GNU Binutils) 2.17.50.0.17.20070615

The assembler is in the binutils package.

Hope this helps,
   Russ

[Jordan Crouse]

On 28/05/08 13:40 -0700, Russell Whitaker wrote:
> On Wed, 28 May 2008, qchwu wrote:
> > I use coreboot -v2 to build rom for AMD's LX800. I can't make it completely.
> > Every time,there have errors during make. the red hat linux V9 is used
> > in my project.
> > Now,my question is what environment and tools are required to build the
> > coreboot.
>
> The environment and tools need not be the latest and greatest.
> To test my answer I checked out coreboot-v2 and ran abuild.
> Results:
>    5 fails due to:
>        make[1]: iasl: Command not found
>    and the known via-cn failure.
>
> (ok, so where do I find iasl?)

http://developer.intel.com/technology/iapc/acpi/

Also available in a modern distribution near you.

Jordan

[Russell Whitaker]

On Thu, 29 May 2008, Jordan Crouse wrote:
> On 28/05/08 13:40 -0700, Russell Whitaker wrote:
> > (ok, so where do I find iasl?)
>
> http://developer.intel.com/technology/iapc/acpi/

I got a "page not found" error.
"iasl"  wasn't in technology/downloads section.
> Also available in a modern distribution near you.

Not in latest slackware, not in either linux-from-scratch or 
beyond-linux-from-scratch.

Russ

[Myles Watson]

> On Thu, 29 May 2008, Jordan Crouse wrote:
> > On 28/05/08 13:40 -0700, Russell Whitaker wrote:
> > > (ok, so where do I find iasl?)
> >
> > http://developer.intel.com/technology/iapc/acpi/
>
> I got a "page not found" error.
> "iasl"  wasn't in technology/downloads section.

It looks like they moved it here:

http://www.acpica.org/downloads/

The tool you need is iasl, acpica is the name of the suite of tools.

Thanks,
Myles

[Russell Whitaker]

On Thu, 29 May 2008, Myles Watson wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 May 2008, Jordan Crouse wrote:
> > > On 28/05/08 13:40 -0700, Russell Whitaker wrote:
> > > > (ok, so where do I find iasl?)
> > >
> > > http://developer.intel.com/technology/iapc/acpi/
> >
> > I got a "page not found" error.
> > "iasl"  wasn't in technology/downloads section.
>
> It looks like they moved it here:
>
> http://www.acpica.org/downloads/
>
> The tool you need is iasl, acpica is the name of the suite of tools.

Thanks, found it.
slight url update: omit the www.

Russ

[Myles Watson]

> On Thu, 29 May 2008, Myles Watson wrote:
> > > On Thu, 29 May 2008, Jordan Crouse wrote:
> > > > On 28/05/08 13:40 -0700, Russell Whitaker wrote:
> > > > > (ok, so where do I find iasl?)
> > > >
> > > > http://developer.intel.com/technology/iapc/acpi/
> > >
> > > I got a "page not found" error.
> > > "iasl"  wasn't in technology/downloads section.
> >
> > It looks like they moved it here:
> >
> > http://www.acpica.org/downloads/
> >
> > The tool you need is iasl, acpica is the name of the suite of tools.
>
> Thanks, found it.
> slight url update: omit the www.

Sorry about that.  I just copied it from my browser.

Thanks,
Myles

[Ward Vandewege]

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:19:17AM +0800, qchwu wrote:
> I use coreboot -v2 to build rom for AMD's LX800. I can't make it
>    completely. Every time,there have errors during make. the red hat linux V9
>    is used in my project.

Ouch, that's ancient; it was released more than 5 years ago.
> Now,my question is what environment and tools are required to build the
>    coreboot.
> The linux kernel version:
> the GCC version:
> make version:
> SVN version:
> Any other tools are required.
> Are the latest tools better than older?

The latest tools are going to be better than what shipped with RH9, for sure.

Thanks,
Ward.