Thanks Eric,

I'll give that a try.  I can't disclose what we are doing that causes the increase in size, but it needs to be in place very early in the boot process.

-Tony

Eric W Biederman wrote:
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Tony Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Hi Ronald and Co.,

We are continuing our hardware development efforts based on Linuxbios,
and have run into a bit a of snag. Our modifications to linuxbios
have caused the linuxbios.strip file to slightly exceed 64K in size.
This causes problems in the build process, specifically:

dd if=linuxbios.strip of=linuxbios.rom bs=1 seek=`expr 65536 - $size`
68060
dd: invalid number `-2524'

What is the correct procedure to increase the available space?

There may be a justification for doing so, but there are some
technical challenges with doing this, which could easily
result in a BIOS that won't get to the C code.

As a short term work around you can decrease the number of debugging
messages compiled into linuxBIOS.

## At a maximum only compile in this level of debugging
option MAXIMUM_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL=8

What are you doing to LinuxBIOS that causes it to exceed 64k?
Most canidates I can think of should be moved out into a bootloader.

Eric




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