Re: barebox for an i586 board

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Hi Giorgio,

On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 11:19:53AM +0200, Giorgio Dal Molin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to build a barebox image for an i586 (Vortex86) based board.
> 
> The config file I'm using was derived from the arch/x86/configs/generic_defconfig
> 
> The build error I see is:
> 
> ...
>   LD      defaultenv/built-in.o
>   GEN     .version
>   CHK     include/generated/compile.h
>   UPD     include/generated/compile.h
>   CC      common/version.o
>   LD      common/built-in.o
>   LD      barebox
> ld: section .bootstrapping VMA [0000000000007e00,000000000000826b] overlaps section .bootsector VMA [0000000000007c00,0000000000007fff]
> make[1]: *** [/tmp/barebox/Makefile:767: barebox] Error 1
> make: *** [Makefile:123: _all] Error 2
> 
> First of all: does barebox really support booting such a 'normal PC'
> without EFI bios ?

Yes, but no. We started support for this scenario, but I haven't heard
of anyone using it for a long time. There is a lot missing and nobody is
working on it. Given that modern X86 hardware has EFI support I don't
think the generic X86 is going anywhere.

Sascha

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