RE: [Etherboot-developers] Problems Booting 5.1 cvs

[Timothy L. <tl...@ro...>]

> >There are some versions of binutils noticeably common in Redhat 7
> >in which as puts junk at the end of assembly files.  In start16.S
> >And possibly some of the others I count on being able to drop off
> >the end of an assembly file and have it work correctly.  With
> >a broken version of binutils/as this code may not work correctly.

Ok, I have a workaround/fix for the issue.  I am not sure what it is
because I don't know what it does. :-)

I patched arch/i386/prefix/boot1a.s as follows:

Index: arch/i386/prefix/boot1a.s
===================================================================
RCS file:
/cvsroot/etherboot/etherboot/etherboot-5.1/src/arch/i386/prefix/boot1a.s
,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -r1.2 boot1a.s
72c72
< blockcount:	.word	36			# if unmodified loads
18kB
---
> blockcount:	.word 64				# if unmodified
loads 18kB

I assume that 64 means something over 18kB, but as I said I don't know
what it means.  I think the value can go lower, but more importantly
does this mean any thing to you?

In my spare time I am reading up on assembly, one day I may even know
what some of this means.

Tim