Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Introduce and use absolute_pointer macro

[Ulrich Teichert]

Hi,

> > I would try the SRM bootimage (make bootimage), but the build is broken:
> 
> The attached patch is too ugly for words, and there's no way I will
> commit anything like this.
> 
> But it at least builds for and seems to successfully make an alpha
> bootimage even when cross-compiling on x86-64.
> 
> So something to test, perhaps..

Sure, I burned it to a CDROM and booted from that per SRM. The screen
went black for a second, then the SRM console came back with:

?05 HLT INSTR
PC=00000000.20000014 PSL= 00000000.00000007

I wonder if we would be able to see more on a serial line - I can try
that perhaps tomorrow or at the weekend. To find out to what code the
PC is pointing to, I would need to understand to what point in memory SRM
loads the image into.... But this way, the process of loading the kernel
definitely worked - I still don't understand why aboot can load the
old kernel but not the new one. I'll have a look at the aboot sources,
perhaps there's a certain limit on kernel size?

I'm not sure if we can call this progress,
CU,
Uli
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