Howdy again, Things are getting better now, so I wanted to keep everyone up to date with what I had To do in order to get as far as I have.
System: Tyan s2895 with 2 Dual Core AMDs and 8GB memory BIOS: Using RD1 Bios savior (4mbit) OS: Linux - SuSE 10.0 stock (ie, gcc 4)
Build issues: when building, there was an overlapping section. I created the following Section and it fixes it:
.rodata. : { *(.rodata.str1.*); }
This was placed after .rom section
Payload not found. It wasn't clear from the writeup that I had to get the Payload from the web site. Stefan was an immense help in this arena. Maybe the payload directory should be bundled with the snapshots because You need it anyway.
Run issues: I build the s2895 bios (fallback and normal) and flash the RD1. I don't know If the fact that the RD1 is 4mbit and the original chip was 8mbit will cause any Problems. The BIOS starts up just fine until the time comes to enable the cache The second time around. (This is after the device enumeration and is in the Initialization stuff.) It hangs right after the code gets cr0 to update it.
I get the impression that I am the only one seeing these issues. It seems that everyone else Can just build and run. Is this really true? If you just grab snapshot 2163, untar it, and buildtarget tyan/s2895 Cd tyan/s2895/s2895, and make, it does it just fine???
Any ideas on the cache enable?
Thanks, Jeff
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Young, Jeff S.