[coreboot] SimNOW V2 LAB problem

Jordan Crouse jordan.crouse at amd.com
Fri May 9 18:01:32 CEST 2008


On 09/05/08 11:41 -0400, Marc Karasek wrote:
> Jordan,
>
> I d/l buildrom to my notebook to build a 32bit version to try it with 
> SimNOW.  It compiles but gets a linker error :
> <coreboot: section `.ram' can't be allocated in segment 0>
> Any thoughts on what could be causing this???

This is from coreboot itself?  That sounds really evil.
We clearly have some major toolchain churn here.

> Marc
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> Jordan Crouse wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> Jordan
>>
>>   
>

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Jordan Crouse
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Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.





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