[coreboot] SimNOW V2 LAB problem

Marc Karasek Marc.Karasek at Sun.COM
Fri May 9 18:34:28 CEST 2008


Good News I just tried coreboot-v3 with the same system and it does 
compile...

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Marc Karasek
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Jordan Crouse wrote:
> On 09/05/08 11:41 -0400, Marc Karasek wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>> On 08/05/08 20:32 -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote:
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>>>       
>>>> 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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