From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: Carlos Roberto do Nascimento Costa <crncosta@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>,
Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Grub2 running address on PowerPC64
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:13:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081122201306.GF7779@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1227034953.17386.29.camel@manoel-laptop>
Committed, thanks!
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 05:02:33PM -0200, Manoel wrote:
> OF uses the address 0x4000 as base-load (as stated in NOTE section added
> by grub-mkelfimage) and grub uses 0x10000 as running address, thus
> causing segment overlapping which leads to grub2 unable to load its
> modules.
>
> This patch moves the running address to 0x200000 to prevent overlapping,
> its the same address used by Yaboot and is know to work well.
>
> the makefile must be regenerated using the command:
> $ ruby genmk.rb < conf/powerpc-ieee1275.rmk> conf/powerpc-ieee1275.mk
>
>
> --
> Best Regards,
>
> Manoel Abranches <mrabran@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> IBM Linux Technology Center Brazil
> Index: conf/powerpc-ieee1275.rmk
> ===================================================================
> --- conf/powerpc-ieee1275.rmk (revision 1917)
> +++ conf/powerpc-ieee1275.rmk (working copy)
> @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
> kernel_elf_CFLAGS = $(COMMON_CFLAGS)
> kernel_elf_ASFLAGS = $(COMMON_ASFLAGS)
> kernel_elf_LDFLAGS = $(COMMON_LDFLAGS) -static-libgcc -lgcc \
> - -Wl,-N,-S,-Ttext,0x10000,-Bstatic
> + -Wl,-N,-S,-Ttext,0x200000,-Bstatic
>
> # Scripts.
> sbin_SCRIPTS = grub-install
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2008-11-18 19:02 [PATCH] Grub2 running address on PowerPC64 Manoel
2008-11-22 20:13 ` Robert Millan [this message]
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