Re: [OpenBIOS] [Qemu-devel] Re: building openbios-qemu.elf?

[Laurent Vivier]

> On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 00:07 +0100, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Do you use source from SVN head ?
>
> Yes.
> > Do you have any information in obj-ppc/build.log ?
>
> This is somewhat interesting:
>
> powerpc-440-linux-gnu-strip openbios-qemu.elf
> BFD: st4PszLi: warning: allocated section `.bss' not in segment
> BFD: st4PszLi: warning: allocated section `.sbss' not in segment
>
> The "nostrip" version of openbios-qemu.elf looks much better:
>
> Program Headers:
>  Type           Offset   VirtAddr   PhysAddr   FileSiz MemSiz  Flg Align
>  LOAD           0x000094 0xfff00000 0xfff00000 0x42044 0x4bcb4 RWE 0x4
>  LOAD           0x0420d8 0xfffffffc 0xfffffffc 0x00004 0x00004 R E 0x1
>  GNU_STACK      0x000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000 0x00000 RWE 0x4
>
> Section to Segment mapping:
>  Segment Sections...
>   00     .text.vectors .text .rodata .data .sdata 
>   01     .romentry 
>   02
>
> So something goes wrong in the strip process.

What is the version of your binutils ?
(I use 2.18.0.20080103)

You can also try the native strip of your host if you have installed binutils-multiarch (for a debian system).

Laurent

[Qemu-devel] Re: building openbios-qemu.elf?

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 17:31 +0100, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 00:07 +0100, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Do you use source from SVN head ?
> >
> > Yes.
> > > Do you have any information in obj-ppc/build.log ?
> >
> > This is somewhat interesting:
> >
> > powerpc-440-linux-gnu-strip openbios-qemu.elf
> > BFD: st4PszLi: warning: allocated section `.bss' not in segment
> > BFD: st4PszLi: warning: allocated section `.sbss' not in segment
> >
> > The "nostrip" version of openbios-qemu.elf looks much better:
> >
> > Program Headers:
> >  Type           Offset   VirtAddr   PhysAddr   FileSiz MemSiz  Flg Align
> >  LOAD           0x000094 0xfff00000 0xfff00000 0x42044 0x4bcb4 RWE 0x4
> >  LOAD           0x0420d8 0xfffffffc 0xfffffffc 0x00004 0x00004 R E 0x1
> >  GNU_STACK      0x000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000 0x00000 RWE 0x4
> >
> > Section to Segment mapping:
> >  Segment Sections...
> >   00     .text.vectors .text .rodata .data .sdata 
> >   01     .romentry 
> >   02
> >
> > So something goes wrong in the strip process.
>
> What is the version of your binutils ?
> (I use 2.18.0.20080103)

2.16.1
> You can also try the native strip of your host if you have installed
> binutils-multiarch (for a debian system).

I don't know of anything like that for Fedora, and the native strip
supports only x86 variants.