[announce] OpenBIOS Forth Kernel V1.0 released

[Gregg C Levine]

Hello (again) from Gregg C Levine
Okay, by adding that flag to the flags region of the make file, made
it work, sort of. Now the explosion happens when the process reaches
the steps for creating an image for working with our project here,
Linux BIOS, that's where it happens, something to do with the strip
command. GCC is still 2.9.5.3, and binary utilities are still
2.11.90.0.19, (my mistake), below this will be my script file, (cut
and paste):
Script started on Wed Sep 17 13:21:21 2003
root at who3:/usr/src/openbios/kernel# make

Welcome to OpenBIOS..

Creating build directory /usr/src/openbios/kernel/obj-x86
Checking types...found 32bit platform, creating "types.h"

Building common core files for architecture x86
  compiling primitives.c...    		ok
  compiling stack.c...    		ok
  compiling dict.c...    		ok
  compiling lib.c...    		ok
  compiling openbios.c...    		ok

Building files for unix hosted bootstrap
  compiling unix.c...    		ok
  linking unix bootstrap... 		ok

Bootstrapping dictionary...		ok
Building final dictionary...		ok
Building binary converter...		ok

Compiling x86 architecture specific binaries
  assembling mboot.S...     		ok
  compiling multiboot.c...    		ok
  assembling boot.S...     		ok
  compiling plainboot.c...    		ok
  generating linkable dictionary...	ok
  compiling builtin.c...    		ok
  compiling console.c...    		ok

Linking:
  native multiboot kernel for grub... 	ok
  native kernel (for LinuxBIOS)... 	ok
Usage: strip <switches> in-file(s)
 The switches are:
  -I --input-target <bfdname>      Assume input file is in format
<bfdname>
  -O --output-target <bfdname>     Create an output file in format
<bfdname>
  -F --target <bfdname>            Set both input and output format to
<bfdname>
  -p --preserve-dates              Copy modified/access timestamps to
the output
  -R --remove-section <name>       Remove section <name> from the
output
  -s --strip-all                   Remove all symbol and relocation
information
  -g -S --strip-debug              Remove all debugging symbols
     --strip-unneeded              Remove all symbols not needed by
relocations
  -N --strip-symbol <name>         Do not copy symbol <name>
  -K --keep-symbol <name>          Only copy symbol <name>
  -x --discard-all                 Remove all non-global symbols
  -X --discard-locals              Remove any compiler-generated
symbols
  -v --verbose                     List all object files modified
  -V --version                     Display this program's version
number
  -h --help                        Display this output
  -o <file>                        Place stripped output into <file>
strip: supported targets: elf32-i386 a.out-i386-linux efi-app-ia32
elf32-little elf32-big srec symbolsrec tekhex binary ihex trad-core
make[1]: *** [openbios] Error 1
make: *** [x86] Error 2
root at who3:/usr/src/openbios/kernel# exit
Script done on Wed Sep 17 13:23:00 2003

Stefan your guess is as good as mine, as to what happened here. For
/dev/bios, I found that the version you have there, tended to cause an
oops, with my system tools, I'll grab it again, and try it. Basically
the earlier ones, 2.9 for example, worked. This is before your site
migrated to its present home.

Oh and Ron, thank you for quoting me. It makes me feel better to see
that happen.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Reinauer [mailto:stepan at suse.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 7:18 AM
> To: Gregg C Levine
> Cc: 'LinuxBIOS'
> Subject: Re: [announce] OpenBIOS Forth Kernel V1.0 released
> 
> * Gregg C Levine <hansolofalcon at worldnet.att.net> [030917 06:03]:
> > /usr/src/openbios/kernel/obj-x86/dict.o(.text+0x150): undefined
> > reference to `strncmp'
> > /usr/src/openbios/kernel/obj-x86/dict.o(.text+0x177): undefined
> > reference to `memcpy'
> 
> Ups. What gcc version are you using? Can you try compiling with
> -DDEBUG_GDB in CFLAGS, this adds some normally builtin functions.
> 
> > Any suggestions Stefan? Besides I like your ideas regarding the
Open
> > BIOS concepts. Incidentally for that project, can you put up the
older
> > versions of the /dev/bios files? Say, anything up to 3.*?
> 
> All old versions I have lying around are in
> http://www.openbios.info/bin/
> 
> Do you need some particular code? The CVS version should be better
in
> most cases.
> 
> Stefan
> 
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