linuxbios build problems

Steve M. Gehlbach steve at nexpath.com
Wed Feb 12 02:00:01 CET 2003


> > more summary: the problem is limited to those cases where someone
> > wants to
> > use SERIAL_POST.
> >
> > Seems pretty fixable.
> >
>
> Any more ideas on this?  I chased it around a bit but there sure
> seems to be
> a symbol conflict on _start.
>

Okay I see the point, these are separate pieces of code.  Looks like the
post is inlined unless SERIAL_POST is set, at which point console_tx_al is
called in crt0.  The address of console_tx_al is not fixed at the point
c_start.o is linked.  Not easy to fix, maybe someone else has some ideas.

-Steve




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