[SeaBIOS] Question about linker building seabios
Marc Bertens
mbertens at xs4all.nl
Mon Jan 17 19:35:25 CET 2011
Hmmm, not completely true i'm afraid. When booting a cold systen it will
not come up.
When i switch to my fallback rom it boots, now i switch back to the
image that was not
booting and now it boots just fine.
So i was a little premature with my earlier mail.
I added the boot log in pastebin http://pastebin.com/g83qwpnj
Marc
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 19:12 +0100, Marc Bertens wrote:
> Hi kevin,
>
> I found out what the problem was; my development system was using the
> wrong toolchain.
>
> I will build a new patch and compress it and put it on the mailing
> list. I will make the necessary
> changes, to go from config.h to Kconfig. So there will be no duality
> on the configuration.
>
> I moved out already the "BIG" banners and made them like more files in
> your project.
>
> Marc
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 16:20 -0500, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 09:38:37PM +0100, Marc Bertens wrote:
> > > Kevin,
> > >
> > > Finally here is the patch for Kconfig build system for SeaBIOS, the
> > > patch exists out of two files;
> > > 1. kconfig-for-seabios-patch.1.diff this is the part where the new
> > > files are added.
> > > 2. kconfig-for-seabios-patch.2.diff this is the part with the
> > > changes to the existing files.
> >
> > Thanks Marc.
> >
> > Your patch was too large for the mailing list. Can you put future
> > versions online somewhere or send compressed?
> >
> > > I hope that you agree with the changes :-) and that the kconfig will
> > > here to stay....
> > >
> > > I loaned the kconfig build system from the coreboot project, maybe there
> > > are some references there what i missed.
> >
> > [...]
> > > +++ b/src/configh.h
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,248 @@
> > > +/*
> > > + * This file is part of the seabios project.
> > > + *
> > > + * Copyright (C) 2011 Marc Bertens <mbertens at xs4all.nl>
> > > + * Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Kevin O'Connor <kevin at koconnor.net>
> > > + *
> > > + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> > > + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> > > + * the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
> > [...]
> >
> > I really don't like these big copyright banners. I don't see much
> > point in copyrighting a header file. SeaBIOS is LGPLv3, and all core
> > files must use that copyright.
> >
> > This doesn't apply to non-core files copied from other projects, so
> > doesn't need to be true for tools/kconfig.
> >
> > Also, your first patch modifies seabios, but I thought you were going
> > to do that in patch2? I don't see a reason to have old way and new
> > way in parallel - lets just go right to the kconfig way. The way
> > you've introduced configh.h, configu.h, and configk.h in addition to
> > the existing config.h is confusing.
> >
> > [...]
> > > --- a/tools/kconfig/Makefile
> > > +++ b/tools/kconfig/Makefile
> > > @@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ endif
> > > $(objk)/gconf.o: $(objk)/.tmp_gtkcheck
> > >
> > > ifeq ($(gconf-target),1)
> > > --include $(objk)/.tmp_gtkcheck
> > > +include $(objk)/.tmp_gtkcheck
> > >
> > > # GTK needs some extra effort, too...
> > > $(objk)/.tmp_gtkcheck:
> > > @@ -250,23 +250,23 @@ endif
> > >
> > > # --- UNUSED, ignore ----------------------------------------------------------
> > > ifdef UNUSED
> > > -$(obj)/zconf.tab.o: $(obj)/lex.zconf.c $(obj)/zconf.hash.c
> > > +$(obj)/zconf.tab.o: $(srck)/lex.zconf.c $(srck)/zconf.hash.c
> >
> > Can you explain what this does?
> >
> > -Kevin
>
>
>
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