[SeaBIOS] great things are coming your way :-)

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Tue Oct 16 00:47:57 CEST 2012


On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 04:25:07PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote:
> ron minnich wrote:
> > next problem: If the seabios build fails, and you do a make again,
> > it fails with this kind of error
> > 
> >     CC         cbfs/fallback/coreboot_ram.debug
> >     OBJCOPY    cbfs/fallback/coreboot_ram.elf
> >     Checking out SeaBIOS revision 385a7d0dec28841a05531cba96c62138c3959fef
> > error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten
> > by checkout:
> >         src/acpi-dsdt.hex
> > Please, commit your changes or stash them before you can switch branches.
> > Aborting
> > fatal: A branch named 'coreboot' already exists.
> > make[1]: *** [checkout] Error 128
> > make: *** [seabios] Error 2
> 
> I've seen this happen. The coreboot Makefile stuff that builds
> SeaBIOS assumes that there are never uncommitted changes in the
> SeaBIOS directory, and you get the above error when there are.
> 
> It is easy to forcefully overwrite any uncommitted changes in the
> SeaBIOS build directory, but I am not sure if we want to do that.
> 
> I would very much appreciate an explanation why the src/acpi-dsdt.hex
> file gets modified as part of the build.

It no longer does.  The ACPI file is now generated on each build.
This should be in the v1.7.1 release - maybe you're on an old version?

-Kevin



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