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Re: Bad powerpc code with GCC 4.5.3?



On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:01:00 -0700
Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost> wrote:

> 
> On Aug 11, 2011, at 2:45 AM, Frank Wille wrote:
> 
> > But what is causing all our boot loaders to fail? And not only ofwboot, but
> > also sandpoint's altboot, which is quite different.
> 
> How fast do they die?

Old ofwboot:

Welcome to SmartFirmware(tm) for bplan Pegasos2 version 1.2 (20051216161829)
SmartFirmware(tm) Copyright 1996-2001 by CodeGen, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
Pegasos BIOS Extensions Copyright 2001-2004 by bplan GmbH.
All Rights Reserved.
auto-booting...
Auto-boot in 0 seconds - press ESC to abort, ENTER to boot:        
R 
>> NetBSD/ofppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.11 (Sun Jul 31 19:16:12 UTC 2011)
(works fine)

New ofwboot:

Welcome to SmartFirmware(tm) for bplan Pegasos2 version 1.2 (20051216161829)
SmartFirmware(tm) Copyright 1996-2001 by CodeGen, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
Pegasos BIOS Extensions Copyright 2001-2004 by bplan GmbH.
All Rights Reserved.
auto-booting...
Auto-boot in 0 seconds - press ESC to abort, ENTER to boot:        
R
(nothing happens, no errors)

I realize this is not very helpful, but it looks like it dies very early. Even 
before ofwboot is started? During loading?

-- 
Best regards,
Radoslaw Kujawa


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