[coreboot] unexpected exception errors loading vga rom

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Thu Apr 23 01:28:09 CEST 2009


On 23.04.2009 1:09 Uhr, Joseph Smith wrote:
>
> On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:50:54 -0700, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Joseph Smith <joe at settoplinux.org>
>>     
> wrote:
>   
>>>       
>>>> This really sounds like an unitialized variable or a bad pointer.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Wouldn't gcc catch these and error when building?
>>>       
>> not always. that's what sparse can be useful for.
>>
>>     
> Why can't I just send the build output to a text file and then look through
> it for all the warnings/errors?
>
> $ make > buildlog.txt
>   

You can..

btw.. qa.coreboot.org holds logs of each revision too (the last few
200-1000 depending when I clean up)

http://qa.coreboot.org/log_buildbrd.php?revision=4187&device=ip1000&vendor=thomson&num=2

But please note that gcc does not catch all the tricky mistakes we make.

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