[coreboot] [PATCH] fix stage0_i586.S in v3

Ed Swierk eswierk at arastra.com
Fri Apr 4 20:07:55 CEST 2008


On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
<c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:
>  By the way, IIRC Segher once wrote that binutils from gnu.org are a
>  completely different beast compared to "linux binutils" shipped by
>  almost all distributors.

In an ideal world coreboot would be buildable on a wide variety of
binutils versions, but it seems to me that coreboot uses a number of
linker features that just aren't well exercised and only a few people
on the planet understand at all, judging from bug discussions on the
binutils lists. Since I'm not one of them, I choose to be lazy and
stop fighting binutils bugs.

So with the latest Fedora upgrade, I gave up on using the Fedora
binutils and now build a gnu.org one from scratch (along with a
complete cross-compiling toolchain for building a Linux payload with
busybox, uClibc, etc.--I'm happy to share the build scripts if anyone
is interested).

FWIW.

--Ed




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