[coreboot] Strange failure - help?

Ward Vandewege ward at gnu.org
Thu Mar 19 00:33:47 CET 2009


On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:28:00PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> On 18.03.2009 20:42 Uhr, Myles Watson wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Ward Vandewege <ward at gnu.org> wrote:
> >   
> >> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:38:34PM -0600, Myles Watson wrote:
> >>     
> >>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>       
> >>>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>         
> >>>>> I have two coreboot trees.  As far as I can tell they're identical.
> >>>>> One produces working ROM images, and the other reboots when it jumps
> >>>>> to the payload.
> >>>>>           
> >>>> That was the key.  I hadn't done a make clean in the working tree.
> >>>> Rev 4000 broke it for me, but I'm still not sure why.  Once I was
> >>>> doing make clean every time I could find the revision that was
> >>>> breaking.  It looks like Rev 4000 changed the compile flags, so that's
> >>>> where I'm going next.  Everything else in 4000 looks innocuous to me.
> >>>>         
> >>> The question is why these compiler flags for coreboot make SeaBIOS
> >>> panic.  I'm still trying to narrow it down, but if you spot it first
> >>> that would be great!
> >>>       
> >> FWIW, I'm seeing the exact same thing (reboot when jump to payload) with a
> >> filo payload and the latest coreboot tree (patched for m2a-vm):
> >>     
> >
> > Thanks!  That helps to know it's not just seabios.  If you remove
> > -fno-frame-pointer it should work again.
> >   
> 
> Now, let's find out what causes this.. What compiler version are you
> guys using, and what distribution?

Ubuntu 8.10, 32 bit

gcc (Ubuntu 4.3.2-1ubuntu12) 4.3.2

Thanks,
Ward.

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