[coreboot] Compile error in coreboot-v2: "failed to trunc value: mask ff"

[Corey Osgood]

On undefined, Corey Osgood <corey.osgood at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Uwe Hermann <uwe at hermann-uwe.de> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 05:59:16PM -0400, Corey Osgood wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > In addition, you could try using "unsigned" instead of "u8"... I
> > think
> > > > romcc is kind of bad at handling different data types and it handles
> > all
> > > > sizes equally (ie. using u8 does not gain you the rest of the
> > register you
> > > > are using)
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks, unsigned int/long, u16/u32, and int/long all still produce the
> > same
> > > error (including the auto unsigned char part).
> >
> > Try -mcpu=p2 (or other values) in romcc, e.g.
> >
> >  action  "./romcc -mcpu=p2 -E -O -I$(TOP)/src -I. $(CPPFLAGS)
> > $(MAINBOARD)/auto.c -o $@"
> >
> > That helped last time I had the same problem. Depends on which
> > CPU/chipset you use, of course.
> >
> >
> > Uwe.
>
>
> c3, c3-2, p2, p3, and p4 all give the same error. Same applies when -mmmx
> and/or -msse are added. -fdebug-all gives the same error too, no more info
>
> Thanks,
> Corey
>

Huh, well, the problem's gone now. I have no idea why it worked, but I
changed the smbus functions along with the spd_read_byte wrapper from
returning a u8 to an int. Makes no sense, but it works.

-Corey
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