Re: bootloader issue

Getting closer but there's still an issue...

On boot, I get:
NetBSD/atari secondary bootloader ($Revision: 1.12 $)

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That pipe is the little spinning bar.  It spins a little but freezes pretty 
quickly at the pipe.  The drive light stays off after the freeze.

David Ross
[email protected]


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Izumi Tsutsui" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 8:57 PM
Subject: Re: bootloader issue


>I wrote:
>
>> Okay, now I've managed to get the problem.
>> The aggressive gcc4 strikes us again.
> :
>> I'll check how we can make gcc put bootxx() at the top of the binary.
>
> Could you try this one again?
> http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/~tsutsui/netbsd/atari-HEAD-20090105/
>
> All diffs against bootloaders:
> http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/~tsutsui/netbsd/atari-HEAD-20090105/atari-stand-20090105.diff
>
> - add asm sources which provide a fixed entry point for bootxx and bootxxx
> - rename stand/Makefile.inc to stand/Makefile.booters and
>  explicitly include it in each Makefile because stand directory
>  contains non standalone programs like installboot and
>  Makefile.inc will implicitly be included from all Makefiles in SUBDIRs
> - put more common options into Makefile.booters so that
>  all boot programs use proper options (-Os etc.)
> - make these compile without installed ${DESTDIR}
>  - create machine and m68k symlinks in ${.OBJDIR} in all boot programs
>  - set appropriate make environments to suppress errors and warnings
>  - <string.h> isn't there in _STANDALONE case
>  - put #ifdef TOSTOOLS (looks equivarent with !_STANDALONE)
>    to some files in stand/tostools
>  - use ${LD} ${LINKFLAGS} rather than ${CC} ${LDFLAGS}
> - create raw binaries on ${PROG} target rather than on beforeinstall
>  and stop weird renaming on beforeinstall and afterinstall
> - print proper error message if bootxx size is larger than limit
> - create ${DESTDIR}/usr/mdec/{milan,std} on beforeinstall
>  in all boot programs
>  (XXX: how can we put MD /usr/mdec/foo directories into src/etc/mtree?)
> - prototype warnsfy
> - cleanup Makefiles for readablity and remove unnecessary rules
> - no need to use daddr_t in installboot because the AHDI label doesn't
>  support 64 bit block numbers
>
> I still wonder which is better whole overhaul like this
> or minimum changes for entry point problem for pullups, though.
> ---
> Izumi Tsutsui
>