[coreboot] SimNOW V2 LAB problem
Marc Karasek
Marc.Karasek at Sun.COM
Fri May 9 17:54:14 CEST 2008
Nope, from what I recall the serial console stops when he kernel
loads. I will have to verify this, but...
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Marc Karasek
MTS
Sun Microsystems
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Jordan Crouse wrote:
> On 09/05/08 09:40 -0600, Myles Watson wrote:
>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Jordan Crouse [mailto:jordan.crouse at amd.com]
>>> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 9:16 AM
>>> To: Myles Watson; Marc.Karasek at Sun.COM; coreboot at coreboot.org
>>> Subject: Re: SimNOW V2 LAB problem
>>>
>>> On 08/05/08 20:32 -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 03:52:21PM -0600, Myles Watson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Disregard my feeble wanderings.. I was thinking about my attempt to
>>>>>> move busybox to 1.10.1 and the problems I was seeing there.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think though the two are related. Seems that uClibc 0.9.29 no
>>>>>>
>>> longer
>>>
>>>>>> supports the toolchain wrappers for -nostdlib and forcing a linking
>>>>>>
>>> with
>>>
>>>>>> native tools (gcc/binutils) and a compiled uClibc library. This was
>>>>>> pulled in 0.9.22 according to the uclibc FAQ. Maybe it was just a
>>>>>>
>>> one
>>>
>>>>>> off that FC5 still worked.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Strange. It worked for 0.9.28 as well. Those are the two versions
>>>>>
>>> I've
>>>
>>>>> used in buildrom.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ward: You've used lab haven't you? What toolchain do you use?
>>>>>
>>>> Yep, I've got LAB systems running. I build on gNewsense deltad
>>>>
>>> typically,
>>>
>>>> which is basically Ubuntu Dapper, 32 bit.
>>>>
>>> It might be time for us to ping the uClibc / busybox teams for some
>>> guidance.
>>>
>> So you think it's a broken uClibc / busybox problem, not a compiler/binutils
>> problem?
>>
>> I'm inclined to think that it's a toolchain issue since I can't build v2 on
>> my 32-bit system. I don't know how to tell the difference, though.
>>
>> Having the serial port continue working through the kernel on SimNow would
>> help, though.
>>
>
> D'oh - its not working through the kernel? Even with console=ttyS0,115200 ?
>
> That sounds ominous.
>
> Jordan
>
>
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