LinuxBIOS & binutils evilness
Eric W. Biederman
ebiederman at lnxi.com
Thu Aug 14 13:49:01 CEST 2003
Jeff Noxon <jeff at planetfall.com> writes:
> 2.14.90.0.5 (Debian unstable) works for mkelfImage 2.5 but won't link
> LinuxBIOS.
This one is change in behavior of binutils.
> 2.12.90.0.1 (Debian stable) works for LinuxBIOS but mkelfimage 2.5
> complains about no a5 magic.
That is a binutils bug.
> Am I stuck with two versions of binutils? Or maybe you know how to make
> LB link with the latest binutils? It looks like a binutils bug.
The code in the freebios2:src/cpu/i386/reset16.inc should avoid this
problem, but oit does not generate a far jump only a near jump.
The problem binutils does not do a good job of supporting 16bit
offsets. If you would like to pull the code back and generate a patch
for the freebios1 tree it would be appreciated.
Eric
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