Re: powerpc/sparc problems

[rubisher]

Hello Vladimir,

Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> rubisher wrote:
> > Felix Zielcke wrote:
> > > Am Montag, den 12.10.2009, 10:55 +0200 schrieb Felix Zielcke:
> > >
> > > > And also anyone who has access to a powerpc machine (and experience)?
> > > Oh and I forgot to mention, that the powerpc version doestn't even build
> > > now with 1.97~beta4:
> > >
> > > _restgpr_31_x in boot is not defined
> > >
> > > Full build log is here:
> > > https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=grub2&ver=1.97~beta4-1&arch=powerpc&stamp=1254771207&file=log
> > Hello Felix,
> >
> > I now reach to install grub for my debian unstable installation on my
> > ibm p5 lpar (the unstable 1.97~beta3-1) but unfortunately failed to
> > boot because failed to find a symbol (sorry I forget to take note of it).
> > I so jump to svn (release 2641 and today 2642); no luck always this
> > same error:
> >
> > _restgpr_31_x in boot is not defined
> > From the name and what we discussed with Felix on IRC I guess this
> symbol is a counterpart of MIPS' __gnu_local_gp which is used in
> handling GOT relocations which allow usage of a single instruction to
> load 32-bit address instead of usual 2 but require linker to generate
> additional table. You can look into kern/mips/dl.c of my mips branch for
> details. Similar approach can be used for powerpc. I suppose it would be
> a good idea to put this code to kern/got.c instead of kern/<arch>. But
> such a change just before release is too big.
> Since it correspond to a recent change in gcc behaviour perhaps an old
> behaviour can be restored with an option.

I well reach to grab your mips git tree, but I don't have deep knowledge in programming, so I will need a bit of time to 
analyse ;<)

Tx a lot,
        J.

> > I so re-try to build the deb pkg 1.97~beta3-1; too bad again this same
> > error???
> >
> > Could it be so a gcc issue (debian build of 1.97~beta3-1 was with
> > gcc-4.4 4.4.1-3; here I rebuild with gcc-4.4 4.4.1-6 and even most
> > recent 4.4.2-1?)
> >
> > I so try to come back to gcc 4.3 and this time it build fine (not yet
> > tested if this one boot, sorry).
> >
> > Any idea?
> >
> > Tia,
> >     j.
> >
> > ps: I also tried to test bean123 git branch (grab this Oct 19) but
> > this failed to build early to compile normal/main.c (gcc didn't find
> > some references to some grub_... struct and fnct)
> >
> >
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