[coreboot] SimNOW V2 LAB problem

Jordan Crouse jordan.crouse at amd.com
Fri May 9 17:46:20 CEST 2008


On 09/05/08 09:40 -0600, Myles Watson wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jordan Crouse [mailto:jordan.crouse at amd.com]
> > Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 9:16 AM
> > To: Myles Watson; Marc.Karasek at Sun.COM; coreboot at coreboot.org
> > Subject: Re: SimNOW V2 LAB problem
> > 
> > On 08/05/08 20:32 -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 03:52:21PM -0600, Myles Watson wrote:
> > > > > Disregard my feeble wanderings..  I was thinking about my attempt to
> > > > > move busybox to 1.10.1 and the problems I was seeing there.
> > > > >
> > > > > I think though the two are related.  Seems that uClibc 0.9.29 no
> > longer
> > > > > supports the toolchain wrappers for -nostdlib and forcing a linking
> > with
> > > > > native tools (gcc/binutils) and a compiled uClibc library.  This was
> > > > > pulled in 0.9.22 according to the uclibc FAQ.  Maybe it was just a
> > one
> > > > > off that FC5 still worked.
> > > >
> > > > Strange.  It worked for 0.9.28 as well.  Those are the two versions
> > I've
> > > > used in buildrom.
> > > >
> > > > Ward: You've used lab haven't you?  What toolchain do you use?
> > >
> > > Yep, I've got LAB systems running. I build on gNewsense deltad
> > typically,
> > > which is basically Ubuntu Dapper, 32 bit.
> > 
> > It might be time for us to ping the uClibc / busybox teams for some
> > guidance.
> 
> So you think it's a broken uClibc / busybox problem, not a compiler/binutils
> problem?
> 
> I'm inclined to think that it's a toolchain issue since I can't build v2 on
> my 32-bit system.  I don't know how to tell the difference, though.
> 
> Having the serial port continue working through the kernel on SimNow would
> help, though.

D'oh - its not working through the kernel?  Even with console=ttyS0,115200 ?

That sounds ominous.

Jordan

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Jordan Crouse
Systems Software Development Engineer 
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.





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