[LinuxBIOS] Qemu compile for LinuxBIOSV2

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Mon Dec 3 21:32:23 CET 2007


On 03.12.2007 21:18, Marc Karasek wrote:
> I think I have found the problem.  It is related to the patch Ed sent.
> The new LD looks like it automagically turns on the --build-id
> option.  I have not found out how turn it off.
> When this option is used it generates the   .note.gnu.build-id
> section.  When this section was discarded in the first ld pass
> (linuxbios_rom.ram creation) it was causing the segmentation fault crash.
> It looks like this same option is being called again when crt0.o is
> linked to create linuxbios.  I have added the .note.gnu.build-id
> section to the .id section in the ldscript.ld file.
> SECTIONS {
>        . = (_ROMBASE + ROM_IMAGE_SIZE - 0x10) - (__id_end - __id_start);
>        .id (.) : {
>                *(.id)
>                *(.note.gnu.build-id)
>        }
>
>
> This has gotten me past the second crash but now linuxbios.strip is
> crashing.

Well done.

> nm -n linuxbios | sort > linuxbios.map
> objcopy --gap-fill 0xff -O binary linuxbios linuxbios.strip
> objcopy: linuxbios.strip: Bad value
> objcopy: linuxbios.strip: Bad value
> make[1]: *** [linuxbios.strip] Error 1
>
> So this does not look like a ld problem, but an added feature to ld is
> causing us grief.  If anyone can figure out how to turn this option
> off,  that may fix all of this without any patches... :-)

Still, it would be a nice gesture to the binutils guys to report it as a
bug. Maybe there's some bug deeper down which triggers this.


Regards,
Carl-Daniel




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