[SeaBIOS] [PATCH] don't produce overly large images

Jan Beulich JBeulich at suse.com
Wed Aug 28 09:51:00 CEST 2013


>>> On 28.08.13 at 09:36, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel at redhat.com> wrote:
> Explicitly specifying the size would solve this.  You can specify
> size=128k then and the build will fail if it doesn't fit.

Not really nice, as there's no immediate way to address such a
build failure. Guessing upon compiler versions (and having one at
hand that produces a small enough image) is not really someone
ought to be concerned about who just needs to build SeaBIOS as
a prerequisite (i.e. not themselves knowing much about SeaBIOS
- that was the fundamental issue I ran into: Knowing nothing
about it, I had this strange runtime failure [which admittedly is
even worse than a build time one], and had to inspect stuff I
should never have had a need to look at).

Jan




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