[coreboot] Strange failure - help?

Ward Vandewege ward at gnu.org
Wed Mar 18 20:48:31 CET 2009


On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 01:42:56PM -0600, Myles Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Ward Vandewege <ward at gnu.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:38:34PM -0600, Myles Watson wrote:
> >> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> I have two coreboot trees.  As far as I can tell they're identical.
> >> >> One produces working ROM images, and the other reboots when it jumps
> >> >> to the payload.
> >> >
> >> > That was the key.  I hadn't done a make clean in the working tree.
> >> > Rev 4000 broke it for me, but I'm still not sure why.  Once I was
> >> > doing make clean every time I could find the revision that was
> >> > breaking.  It looks like Rev 4000 changed the compile flags, so that's
> >> > where I'm going next.  Everything else in 4000 looks innocuous to me.
> >>
> >> The question is why these compiler flags for coreboot make SeaBIOS
> >> panic.  I'm still trying to narrow it down, but if you spot it first
> >> that would be great!
> >
> > FWIW, I'm seeing the exact same thing (reboot when jump to payload) with a
> > filo payload and the latest coreboot tree (patched for m2a-vm):
> 
> Thanks!  That helps to know it's not just seabios.  If you remove
> -fno-frame-pointer it should work again.

Confirmed, removing -fomit-frame-pointer fixes the boot with FILO.

Thanks!
Ward.

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