[coreboot] SIGILL on an ASUS A8V-E Deluxe

[Idwer Vollering]

2012/7/6 Michael Büchler <mbuechler.3 at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 13:10 +0200, Michael Büchler wrote:
>> I'm trying to run coreboot on an ASUS A8V-E Deluxe. It stops with a
>> SIGILL after saying the following (tail of the log I got over serial):
>
> I was able to get around this by using gcc-4.4.6 instead of gcc-4.6.2.
> In detail:
>
> The SIGILL occured with this version of gcc:
> $ gcc --version
> gcc (Gentoo 4.6.2 p1.4, pie-0.5.0) 4.6.2
>
> It doesn't happen on this version of gcc (I get to FILO at least):
> $ gcc --version
> gcc (Gentoo 4.4.6-r1 p1.0, pie-0.4.5) 4.4.6
>
> So I guess gcc-4.6.2 is the culprit? I didn't test a newer version like
> 4.6.3 or 4.7.1.

You should retry with crossgcc: sh util/crossgcc/buildgcc, remove
.xconfig before you run make menuconfig.

>
> It's working for me now so as a user I will just accept that I have to
> use gcc-4.4.6, but please tell me if I can help fixing this issue.
>
>
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