[coreboot] SimNOW V2 LAB problem

[Myles Watson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc.Karasek at Sun.COM [mailto:Marc.Karasek at Sun.COM]
> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 10:34 AM
> To: Jordan Crouse
> Cc: Myles Watson; coreboot at coreboot.org
> Subject: Re: SimNOW V2 LAB problem
> 
> Good News I just tried coreboot-v3 with the same system and it does
> compile...

Yes.  It's weird.  I can even compile v2 with an identical toolchain
(release versions) on my x86_64 box.

Here's the original thread.

http://coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2008-February/029993.html 

Thanks,
Myles

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> Marc Karasek
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> 
> 
> Jordan Crouse wrote:
> > 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
> >>
> >> *********************
> >> Marc Karasek
> >> MTS
> >> Sun Microsystems
> >> mailto:marc.karasek at sun.com
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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
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >