On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 04:06:20PM +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
El 23/2/16 a les 15:53, Kevin O'Connor ha escrit:
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 12:07:00PM +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
El 20/2/16 a les 3:41, Kevin O'Connor ha escrit:
On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 06:21:10PM +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
It seems like ELF toolchain objcopy chokes if a section address is not aligned to the alignment specified by the section, see:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207170
The snippet shown above has addr aligned to 16 (which matches latest upstream), so it's not a problem, but the current SeaBIOS version shipped in Xen 4.5 (1.7.5 IIRC) ends up with an addr that's not a multiple of 16, as shown in the bug report, and objcopy complains with:
objcopy: elf_update() failed: Layout constraint violation
Thanks. I agree it should be fixed. However, I think there are a few other cases that could cause the ".text" section alignment to be off. Are you okay with the patch below instead?
Yes, looks fine to me. AFAICT SeaBIOS packs all the sections (.text, .data, .rodata) ibnside of the .text section, which I didn't realize before.
Thanks, I committed the change.
Thanks, I would also like to request this fix to be backported to stable branches. Should I send a formal request, or is this email enough?
Ideally I would like to see it applied to 1.9, 1.8 and 1.7.5.
Gerd maintains the stable trees.
I don't know Gerd's thoughts on supporting older stable branches, but I can say that the build changed significantly after 1.7.5 and it would require more than a simple backport of this patch.
-Kevin