Cannot move location counter backwards (romlayout16.lds) error

[Mustafa Tufan]

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

Cannot move location counter backwards (romlayout16.lds) error

[Idwer Vollering]

2011/5/17 Mustafa Tufan :
> 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
> 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
> 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?

Download coreboot's source code from subversion, then use crossgcc to
build SeaBIOS: http://www.coreboot.org/Download_coreboot

$ svn co svn://coreboot.org/coreboot/trunk ~/coreboot/svn/trunk/
$ cd ~/coreboot/svn/util/crossgcc/
$ ./buildgcc
$ cd ~/seabios/seabios-master
$ export PATH=~/coreboot/svn/trunk/util/crossgcc/xgcc/bin/:"$PATH"
$ make HOSTCC=i386-elf-gcc LD=i386-elf-ld

The buildgcc script can take a --jobs parameter, which is passed to
"make". See ./buildgcc --help
> Mustafa Tufan
>
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> [e-mail]
> http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios

Cannot move location counter backwards (romlayout16.lds) error

[Peter Stuge]

Idwer Vollering wrote:
> > gnostic@GnoStiC-G633:~/seabios-0.6.2$ gcc -v
> > ...
> > gcc version 4.5.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.5.2-8ubuntu4)

Ubuntu toolchain is known to be broken. They have added patches which
make the toolchain unable to build coreboot and/or SeaBIOS correctly.
> Download coreboot's source code from subversion, then use crossgcc to
> build SeaBIOS: http://www.coreboot.org/Download_coreboot
>
> $ svn co svn://coreboot.org/coreboot/trunk ~/coreboot/svn/trunk/
> $ cd ~/coreboot/svn/util/crossgcc/

Note the paths should be the same.
> $ ./buildgcc

Since a few commits it's also possible to run make crossgcc in the
coreboot top-level directory to build the reference toolchain.
> $ cd ~/seabios/seabios-master
> $ export PATH=~/coreboot/svn/trunk/util/crossgcc/xgcc/bin/:"$PATH"
> $ make HOSTCC=i386-elf-gcc LD=i386-elf-ld

Yup.

//Peter

Cannot move location counter backwards (romlayout16.lds) error

[Mustafa Tufan]

ok, i setup a ubuntu 10.04.2 machine and it compiles fine;

just for the record:
gno@gno-laptop:~$ uname -a
Linux gno-laptop 2.6.32-28-generic #55-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 10 21:21:01 UTC
2011 i686 GNU/Linux

gno@gno-laptop:~$ gcc -v
gcc version 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5)

gno@gno-laptop:~$ ld -v
GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.20.1-system.20100303

-mustafa

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Peter Stuge  wrote:
> Idwer Vollering wrote:
>
> Ubuntu toolchain is known to be broken. They have added patches which
> make the toolchain unable to build coreboot and/or SeaBIOS correctly.

Cannot move location counter backwards (romlayout16.lds) error

[Bruce Rogers]

> > > On 5/17/2011 at 08:29 AM, Mustafa Tufan  wrote:
> 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
> 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
> 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

Cannot move location counter backwards (romlayout16.lds) error

[Mustafa Tufan]

ubuntu 11.04

gnostic@GnoStiC-G633:~$ ld -v
GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.21.0.20110327

-mustafa.

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Bruce Rogers  wrote:
> > > > On 5/17/2011 at 08:29 AM, Mustafa Tufan
>
> wrote:
> > 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
> > 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
> > 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

Cannot move location counter backwards (romlayout16.lds) error

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:13:24AM -0600, Bruce Rogers wrote:
> > > > On 5/17/2011 at 08:29 AM, Mustafa Tufan  wrote:
> >
> > out/romlayout16.lds:697 cannot move location counter backwards (from
> > 000000000000ca0d to 000000000000c9f4)
> > make: *** [out/rom16.o] Error 1

[...]
> 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

Thanks for the link.  This seems to be a pretty striking failure in
LD, and it seems to have shipped with Ubuntu 11.04.  I think the only
thing we can do here is detect the error during build and alert the
user of the problem.  Ughh.

-Kevin

Cannot move location counter backwards (romlayout16.lds) error

[Bruce Rogers]

> > > On 5/17/2011 at 11:13 AM, Bruce Rogers wrote:
> > > > On 5/17/2011 at 08:29 AM, Mustafa Tufan  wrote:
> > 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
> > 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
> > 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

FYI: The openSUSE  bug references the following bug report against the linker:
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12726

Bruce