[Etherboot-developers] Re: [Etherboot-developers]

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ke...@us... (Ken Yap) writes:

> Good work. Now that I have your attention again, what was the story with
> Mazumdar and the TG3? Sounds like he made a bogus ROM image?

I'm not quite certain.  I tried to reflect his debug info to the users
list but etherboot-users has a stupid size limit and kicked it out.

The most telling message was:


ld -Ttext 0x10000 --oformat binary	 -o bin/start16.bin bin/start16.o
cat bin/rloader.bin bin/start16.bin bin/tg3.img > bin/tg3.rom
/usr/bin/perl ./util/makerom.pl   -i'tg3.rom 5.1.7 Etherboot (GPL)' bin/tg3.rom
BIOS extension ROM Image did not start with 0x55 0xAA
Checksum fails


The gcc version was: 
gcc version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)

Beyond that everything looked good at first glance.

..... time passess ....

O.k. I have reproduced an error with the tg3 driver.

If I don't compress it I consistently get RD error back from boot1a.s
I can only load it from a floppy after compression. 36K versus 64K.

I was building with 3.2 so this may have something to do with size issues.

The configuration uses was the default configuration with a minor edit
to force using gcc-3.2 for everything.

Eric