Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > On 30.11.2007 18:35, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > >> Ron mentioned he had strange hangs in pll_reset on various targets. This >> may be due to miscompilation of XIP objects which do not have >> _MAINBOBJECT defined. This issue was impossible to see on qemu because >> no such object existed. Introduce initram_printktest.c in the Qemu >> target, which will test for miscompilation and crash with a descriptive >> error message. >> >> This has been build tested and runtime tested on Qemu, and with my >> compiler/linker combination it indeed crashes. >> gcc (GCC) 4.2.1 (SUSE Linux) >> GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.17.50.20070726-14 (SUSE Linux) >> >> Trying with gcc-4.1 (GCC) 4.1.3 20070724 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux) and >> the linker above had exactly the same results. >> >> Unless we manage to fix the bug uncovered by this patch, leaving the >> Qemu target in crashing state is the best thing we can do because this >> behaviour mirrors the state of all other targets. >> >> Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> (don't forget "svn add mainboard/emulation/qemu-x86/initram_printktest.c" >> if you commit) >> >> > > Ack anyone? I have another patch which fixes the bug revealed by this > patch, but I want to commit them in separate steps to make it more > obvious that one patch points out the problem, and one is a possible > solution. > > > Regards, > Carl-Daniel > > I think this is rather an experiment and should not be committed in this way. It's not a functionality of LinuxBIOS. Do we really need this?
Stefan
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