Re: [PATCH] kbuild: correct size calculation of bzImgae / fix x86 boot

[Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@hartkopp.net>]

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> We use ... printf \x ... when calculating the size of the
> compressed kernel.
> Unfortunately dash built-in printf does not support this notation
> resulting in a non-bootable kernel.
> 
> Fix this by always using the external version of printf.
> 
> The commit that introduced this bug was:
> 4a2ff67c88211026afcbdbc190c13f705dae1b59: "kbuild: fix bzImage
> build for x86"
> 
> Reported-by: Michael Guntsche <mike@it-loops.com>
> Cc: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@hartkopp.net>
> Cc: Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net>
> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
> ---
> 
> This should fix it but it would be great if it is tested.
> Michal Marek, I think this needs to go upstream pretty quickly.
> 
> 	Sam
> 
>  scripts/Makefile.lib |    3 ++-
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
> index cd815ac..bd201d9 100644
> --- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
> @@ -213,13 +213,14 @@ cmd_gzip = (cat $(filter-out FORCE,$^) | gzip -f -9 > $@) || \
>  
>  # Bzip2 and LZMA do not include size in file... so we have to fake that;
>  # append the size as a 32-bit littleendian number as gzip does.
> +# Note: dash built-in printf does not support \x so use /usr/bin version
>  size_append = printf $(shell						\


I thought *this* printf caused the problem?!?


>  dec_size=0;								\
>  for F in $1; do								\
>  	fsize=$$(stat -c "%s" $$F);					\
>  	dec_size=$$(expr $$dec_size + $$fsize);				\
>  done;									\
> -printf "%08x" $$dec_size |						\
> +/usr/bin/printf "%08x" $$dec_size |						\

Maybe this one too ...

Should i test it with this patch anyway??

Regards,
Oliver