Re: [SeaBIOS] Cannot move location counter backwards (romlayout16.lds) error

[Bruce Rogers]

 >>> On 5/17/2011 at 08:29 AM, Mustafa Tufan <[e-mail]> wrote: 
> 1) downloaded http://code.coreboot.org/p/seabios/source/download/master/
> 
> gnostic@GnoStiC-G633:~/seabios/seabios-master$ make
>   Build Kconfig config file
>   Compiling whole program out/ccode.16.s
>   Compiling to assembler out/asm-offsets.s
>   Generating offset file out/asm-offsets.h
>   Compiling (16bit) out/code16.o
>   Compiling whole program out/ccode32flat.o
>   Compiling whole program out/code32seg.o
>   Building ld scripts (version "pre-0.6.3-20110517_170406-GnoStiC-G633")
> Fixed space: 0xe05b-0x10000  total: 8101  slack: 1  Percent slack: 0.0%
> 16bit size:           39424
> 32bit segmented size: 1636
> 32bit flat size:      12300
> 32bit flat init size: 56624
>   Linking out/rom16.o
> out/romlayout16.lds:697 cannot move location counter backwards (from
> 000000000000ca0d to 000000000000c9f4)
> make: *** [out/rom16.o] Error 1
> 
> 2) downloaded
> http://code.coreboot.org/p/seabios/source/download/0.6.1-stable/
> 
> gnostic@GnoStiC-G633:~/seabios/seabios-0.6.1-stable$ make
>   Compiling whole program out/ccode.16.s
>   Compiling to assembler out/asm-offsets.s
>   Generating offset file out/asm-offsets.h
>   Compiling (16bit) out/code16.o
>   Compiling whole program out/ccode32flat.o
>   Compiling whole program out/code32seg.o
>   Building ld scripts (version "0.6.1.2-20110517_170552-GnoStiC-G633")
> Fixed space: 0xe05b-0x10000  total: 8101  slack: 3  Percent slack: 0.0%
> 16bit size:           38896
> 32bit segmented size: 1636
> 32bit flat size:      64828
>   Linking out/rom16.o
> out/romlayout16.lds:695 cannot move location counter backwards (from
> 000000000000c9fa to 000000000000c9e0)
> make: *** [out/rom16.o] Error 1
> 
> 3) it's same with 0.6.2 too
> 
> gnostic@GnoStiC-G633:~/seabios-0.6.2$ uname -a
> Linux GnoStiC-G633 2.6.38-8-generic-pae #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 05:17:09
> UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> gnostic@GnoStiC-G633:~/seabios-0.6.2$ gcc -v
> ...
> gcc version 4.5.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.5.2-8ubuntu4)
> 
> any suggestions?
> 
> Mustafa Tufan

What linker version are you using?
I ran into this type of problem when using the latest un-official  binutils package.
They have since fixed a recently introduced bug in ld that was causing the issue.
For more info, see: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691290

Bruce