On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 01:16:54PM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 03/07/13 09:43, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > > I did a git bisect to find the commit fixing the issue. Then, as I was > > not believing the result, I tried the following sequence a dozen of > > times (for some unknown reasons the FreeBSD install CD doesn't exhibit > > the issue, so I used the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD installer): > > > > | mkdir qemu-freebsd-bug > > | cd qemu-freebsd-bug > > | > > | wget > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/installer-kfreebsd-amd64/current/images/netboot/mini.iso > > > > | > > | git clone git://git.qemu.org/qemu.git > > | cd qemu > > | git checkout -b stable-1.4 v1.4.0 > > | ./configure --target-list=x86_64-softmmu > > | make > > | cd .. > > | > > | git clone git://git.seabios.org/seabios.git > > | cd seabios > > | git checkout -b 1.7.2-stable origin/1.7.2-stable > > | git reset --hard 4219149ad2b783abfa61e80e9e9f6910db0c76c9 > > | make > > | cp out/bios.bin ../qemu/pc-bios > > | cd.. > > | > > | # debian-installer boots correctly > > | ./qemu/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -cdrom mini.iso > > | > > | cd seabios > > | git reset --hard d75c22fcb6521dad11428b65789d92f89675c600 > > | git clean -fdx > > | make > > | cp out/bios.bin ../qemu/pc-bios > > | cd .. > > | > > | # debian-installer fails to boot > > | ./qemu/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -cdrom mini.iso > > > > > > Maybe I am doing something wrong or there is a bug in my toolchain > > (Debian Sid). It would be nice if someone could try to reproduce that on > > another distro/system. > > > > Can you save the out/ directory from both builds and "diff -ur" them > (maybe just the *.lds files)?
Please find it attached.
> I'm noticing that pathnames are embedded in some ELF section names (I
> hope this sentence makes sense), and when you build at d75c22fc, those
> pathnames contain dot-dot (".."), ie. two section name separators next
> to each other. Maybe that's not good; no idea.
>
It's clearly the case, but I also don't know if it is a good solution or
not. What is sure is that it also changes the address of the text
section in bios.bin.elf.
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