Re: more than a segment of code

2003-09-10 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030910 16:32]: > > One thing you can look at is to strip down the debugging messages from > > the romcc code. That has at times made a large difference. > > see if your auto.c has a high debug message level ... yes, this has > helped me a lot. right.. i was s

Re: more than a segment of code

2003-09-10 Thread Steve Gehlbach
Eric W. Biederman wrote: startup is very tricky if you don't fit into 64K. Maybe you can amplify on this. I can see it for older chipsets, but for modern ones, if we go into 32-bit mode immediately, why is this a problem? -Steve ___ Linuxbios mailing

Re: more than a segment of code

2003-09-10 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > I got it compiling now with a log level of 7, but unfortunately it > doesnt produce much output with that: > LinuxBIOS-1.1.4.0Fallback Mit Sep 10 15:13:38 CEST 2003 starting... what are you trying to debug? What I've done is this: set MAXIMUM_CONSOL

Re: more than a segment of code

2003-09-10 Thread ron minnich
On 10 Sep 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > There are a lot of good reasons for keeping LinuxBIOS within 64K. The > two top ones are to limit code bloat and because startup is very > tricky if you don't fit into 64K. true, but ... :-) > One thing you can look at is to strip down the debugging me

Re: more than a segment of code

2003-09-10 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > Is there any solution except stripping down? we need a way to set it up so the linuxbios compressed payload is BELOW linuxbios in memory. That would buy a lot of room. I have not looked at this yet. ron __

Re: more than a segment of code

2003-09-10 Thread Stefan Reinauer
* Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030910 14:38]: > > Is there any solution except stripping down? > > Fixing romcc so it does not inline everything. This sounds like it's going to be pretty complex > There are a lot of good reasons for keeping LinuxBIOS within 64K. The > two top ones a

Re: more than a segment of code

2003-09-10 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I'm trying to adopt the AMD Quartet target to the new config scheme > completely, but until now I failed when using the code I checked into > CVS. The static tables and structures like the mem_controller cpu[] > are twice as big as with the HD

more than a segment of code

2003-09-10 Thread Stefan Reinauer
Hi, I'm trying to adopt the AMD Quartet target to the new config scheme completely, but until now I failed when using the code I checked into CVS. The static tables and structures like the mem_controller cpu[] are twice as big as with the HDAMA most of the time, so the image does not fit in 64k an