[LinuxBIOS] Re: Linuxbios is always 421bytes larger than allowed

Steve Magnani steve at digidescorp.com
Mon Jun 27 17:17:25 CEST 2005


I ran into something like this not long ago. It might be that _start is
too far away from the top of memory. Try editing
src/cpu/x86/16bit/reset16.lds and change this:

	_ROMTOP = (_start >= 0xffff0000) ? 0xfffffff0 : 0xffffffff8; 

to this:

	_ROMTOP = (_start >= 0xffff0000) ? 0xfffffff0 : 0xffffffff0; 

Then re-build. If it builds successfully, that's the problem, and you'll
have to juggle your code or reduce it so that _start ends up at 0xFFFF0000
or greater.

On an editorial note, it's nice that the build system catches this
problem, but I really wish it did it in a way that made it more obvious
what the problem is. 

Steve






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