[OpenBIOS] [Qemu-devel] Re: building openbios-qemu.elf?

[Laurent Vivier]

>On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 00:07 +0100, Laurent Vivier wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Do you use source from SVN head ?
>
>Yes.
>
>> Do you have any information in obj-ppc/build.log ?
>
>This is somewhat interesting:
>
>powerpc-440-linux-gnu-strip openbios-qemu.elf
>BFD: st4PszLi: warning: allocated section `.bss' not in segment
>BFD: st4PszLi: warning: allocated section `.sbss' not in segment
>
>The "nostrip" version of openbios-qemu.elf looks much better:
>
>Program Headers:
>  Type           Offset   VirtAddr   PhysAddr   FileSiz MemSiz  Flg Align
>  LOAD           0x000094 0xfff00000 0xfff00000 0x42044 0x4bcb4 RWE 0x4
>  LOAD           0x0420d8 0xfffffffc 0xfffffffc 0x00004 0x00004 R E 0x1
>  GNU_STACK      0x000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000 0x00000 RWE 0x4
>
> Section to Segment mapping:
>  Segment Sections...
>   00     .text.vectors .text .rodata .data .sdata 
>   01     .romentry 
>   02     
>
>So something goes wrong in the strip process.
>

What is the version of your binutils ?
(I use 2.18.0.20080103)

You can also try the native strip of your host if you have installed binutils-multiarch (for a debian system). 

Laurent
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