[coreboot] Problem with objcopy: cannot generate coreboot.strip

[Myles Watson]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Jeffrey C. Jacobs
<jacobs at itd.nrl.navy.mil>wrote:

> Thanks for your reply, Myles!

No problem.


> Myles Watson wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Jeffrey C. Jacobs <
>> jacobs at itd.nrl.navy.mil <mailto:jacobs at itd.nrl.navy.mil>> wrote:
>>
>>    --------
>>    gcc -m32 -nostdlib -nostartfiles -static -o linuxbios -T
>>    ldscript.ld crt0.o
>>    /usr/bin/ld: warning: dot moved backwards before `.text'
>>    /usr/bin/ld: warning: dot moved backwards before `.id'
>>    /usr/bin/ld: warning: dot moved backwards before `.text'
>>    /usr/bin/ld: warning: dot moved backwards before `.id'
>>    /usr/bin/ld: warning: dot moved backwards before `.text'
>>    /usr/bin/ld: warning: dot moved backwards before `.id'
>>
>> I haven't seen these warnings.  Are they the cause?
>>
> Well, I just tried to build the Tyan S1846 board and got these warnings for
> CRT0:
>
> /usr/bin/ld: warning: dot moved backwards before `.id'
> /usr/bin/ld: warning: dot moved backwards before `.id'
> /usr/bin/ld: warning: dot moved backwards before `.id'

No .text warnings, though.


>
> So I guess that may be a red herring since...

Could be, but they still look suspicious to me.


> ... the Tyan S1846 DOES pass the objcopy step so it looks to be specific to
> my target (the arcom/apollo board).  The funny thing is, this was all
> working before I updated to the latest version (though I could never boot
> past the jump to boot loader step before).  I should also note in the strace
> I originally attached that objcopy literally tries to write like 4GB of 0xFF
> before dying if that helps.

I would say that sounds like a negative number.  So if you're telling it to
fill a negative amount of space with 0xff...

Maybe start by comparing ldscripts and offsets between the S1846 and your
board?  Try removing the gap-fill parameter to narrow it down?

Good luck,
Myles
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