[SeaBIOS] too big seabios (1MB)

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Tue Mar 9 14:29:13 CET 2010


On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 12:06:01AM -0700, Bruce Rogers wrote:
>  >>> On 3/6/2010 at 03:06 PM, Kevin O'Connor <kevin at koconnor.net> wrote: 
> > On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 03:17:19PM +0100, Rudolf Marek wrote:
> >> With debian unstable binutils 2.18 and 2.20 I always get quite big 
> > bios.bin.elf
> >> Image. I believe it is because rom.o has alignes for 2**21
> > 
> > Rudolf and I fixed this earlier today.  For anyone else running into
> > this problem, please pull the latest SeaBIOS git.
> > 
> > There is a fix in the git tree that will allow the images to be used.
> > It's important to note that the bios.bin.elf will still be very large
> > - the change enables cbfstool to remove the extra pad that some
> > linkers add.
> > 
> > -Kevin
> >
> 
> Are you sure this got checked in? I don't see any recent changes.

It's commit 92a5742b5f9f217ba6315fa13d075ba98ebc3fd6 - which is from
Jan 10th.

-Kevin



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