Tony Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi Ronald and Co.,
> 
> We are continuing our hardware development efforts based on Linuxbios,
> and have run into a bit a of snag.  Our modifications to linuxbios
> have caused the linuxbios.strip file to slightly exceed 64K in size.
> This causes problems in the build process, specifically:
> 
> dd if=linuxbios.strip of=linuxbios.rom bs=1 seek=`expr 65536 - $size`
> 68060
> dd: invalid number `-2524'
> 
> What is the correct procedure to increase the available space?

There may be a justification for doing so, but there are some
technical challenges with doing this, which could easily
result in a BIOS that won't get to the C code.

As a short term work around you can decrease the number of debugging 
messages compiled into linuxBIOS.

## At a maximum only compile in this level of debugging
option MAXIMUM_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL=8

What are you doing to LinuxBIOS that causes it to exceed 64k?
Most canidates I can think of should be moved out into a bootloader.

Eric

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