[SeaBIOS] compiling a working Seabios

[Greg Ungerer]

Hi Kevin,

Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 03:30:36PM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote:
>> My host build system is a Ubuntu 9.10 x86_64 install (using the most
>> up to date packages). This a gcc-4.4.1 and binutils-2.20 setup.
>>
>> If I get the source seabios-0.5.1 package from Kevin's download
>> page and compile that I end up with a bios.bin.elf that is:
>>
>>    -rwxr-xr-x 1 gerg gerg  1048716  2010-02-17 15:11 bios.bin.elf
> 
> This looks like a binutils quirk that others have run into - a work
> around was recently added to SeaBIOS git (after the 0.5.1 release).

Just using an older ld was enough to fix. So it does look to
be a binutils problem.

I tried the current git head, it still has the same problem
though.


>> If I instead use a binutils-2.18 "ld" that I have lying around
>> (doing "make LD=i386-linux-ld") then I end up with a more
>> reasonable sized bios.bin.elf of 82060 bytes. But this bios.bin.elf
>> just hangs after being loaded by coreboot on my target.
> 
> That's odd.  Did you follow the instructions at:
> 
> http://www.coreboot.org/SeaBIOS#SeaBIOS
> 
> In particular, make sure the proper changes are made to the
> src/config.h file.

Ahh, thats what I was missing. From the README I thought it
was enough to just "make" :-)

I can now generate working seabios.

Thanks
Greg


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