On 30.11.2007 18:35, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > Ron mentioned he had strange hangs in pll_reset on various targets. This > may be due to miscompilation of XIP objects which do not have > _MAINBOBJECT defined. This issue was impossible to see on qemu because > no such object existed. Introduce initram_printktest.c in the Qemu > target, which will test for miscompilation and crash with a descriptive > error message. > > This has been build tested and runtime tested on Qemu, and with my > compiler/linker combination it indeed crashes. > gcc (GCC) 4.2.1 (SUSE Linux) > GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.17.50.20070726-14 (SUSE Linux) > > Trying with gcc-4.1 (GCC) 4.1.3 20070724 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux) and > the linker above had exactly the same results. > > Unless we manage to fix the bug uncovered by this patch, leaving the > Qemu target in crashing state is the best thing we can do because this > behaviour mirrors the state of all other targets. > > Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > (don't forget "svn add mainboard/emulation/qemu-x86/initram_printktest.c" > if you commit) >
Ack anyone? I have another patch which fixes the bug revealed by this patch, but I want to commit them in separate steps to make it more obvious that one patch points out the problem, and one is a possible solution. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios