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From: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Usage of "elf" IMAGE_TYPES
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On Mon, 2017-08-28 at 08:31 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 8:25 AM, Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Folks,
> > 
> > I know it's late in our 2.4 cycle, but we recently discovered that
> > mkelfImage fails due to a recent upgrade to binutils. In doing some
> > research, mkelfimage was removed back in Oct 2014 from the coreboot
> > repo. It was replaced with cbfstool.
> > 
> > Unless I hear otherwise, I recommend that we mark elf Images as
> > deprecated for 2.4 and remove them in 2.5.
> > 
> > I have not yet dived into exactly what binutil change triggered the
> > failure.
> > 
> > Further thoughts?
> 
> you should describe what the errors are, maybe then we can make
> further
> inroads into problem. As far as removal is concerned, I support that
> 
My Bad!  During testing we found the following bug: https://bugzilla.yo
ctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11967

The code that goes along with the Internal error is: 
       /* A sanity check against bad versions of binutils */
        if (params->convert_magic != CONVERT_MAGIC) {
                die("Internal error convert_magic %16llx != %16llx\n",
                        (unsigned long long)(params->convert_magic),
CONVERT_MAGIC);
        }

params->convert_magic is set inside some assembly code:
        .section ".trailer", "a"
        /* Constants set at build time, these are at the very end of my
image */
        .balign 16
        .global params
params:
convert_magic:
        .quad   CONVERT_MAGIC

It might be a simple fix, but I have not dived the rest of the way!

Sau!


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