[OpenBIOS] x86 arch broken?

Blue Swirl blauwirbel at gmail.com
Tue Jan 6 17:03:11 CET 2009


On 1/6/09, Markus Dahms <mad at automagically.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I'm unable to build the x86 version of OpenBIOS (ia32, gcc 4.3.2),
>  cross-ppc and cross-sparc(32|64) work fine.
>
>  | Building OpenBIOS on x86 for x86
>  | Cleaning up... ok
>  | Initializing build tree...ok.
>  | Creating target Makefile...ok.
>  | Creating config files...ok.
>  | Building...error:
>  | modules/console_common.c:124: error: 'FONT_HEIGHT' undeclared (first use in
>  | this function)
>  | modules/console_common.c: In function 'rec_char':
>  | modules/console_common.c:144: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned
>  | modules/console_common.c:144: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned
>  | modules/console_common.c: In function 'scroll1':
>  | modules/console_common.c:155: error: 'FONT_HEIGHT' undeclared (first use in
>  | this function)
>  | modules/console_common.c: In function 'do_con_trol':
>  | modules/console_common.c:238: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned
>  | modules/console_common.c:241: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned
>  | modules/console_common.c:242: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned
>  | modules/console_common.c:251: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned
>  | modules/console_common.c:256: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned
>  | modules/console_common.c:261: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned
>  | make[1]: *** [obj-x86/target/modules/console_common.o] Fehler 1
>  | make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mad/src/svn/openbios-devel'

It looks like the font changes broke x86.

Is x86 version (or amd64 or ia64) still useful, there has been no
development recently? I'd think coreboot would be a better choice
these days.



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