[coreboot] debugging symbols for final ROM image

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Mon Apr 21 12:41:33 CEST 2008


On 21.04.2008 04:50, Jeremy Jackson wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 18:51 -0700, ron minnich wrote:
>
>   
>>>  This sounds like a special case, but in general, "there's nothing new
>>>  under the sun" and compilers/assemblers/linkers do this every day...
>>>  wouldn't that just be a matter of providing the .o/.a object file
>>>  and/or .h header file?
>>>       
>> I throught we were almost doing this already? I call printk from
>> initram for example.
>>     
>
> I think Carl is talking about linking against something *in* a ROM
> (image), not just from .o files resulting from a build...

Yes, indeed. Ron, see also my other mail in this thread with
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:05:39 +0200

I want people to be able to compile initram and stage2 against a
shipped/burned ROM (which means the symbol table for the bootblock need
to end up in ROM somehow).


Regards,
Carl-Daniel




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