unable to make flash-qemu-local
andrzej zaborowski
balrogg at gmail.com
Fri Mar 7 02:26:09 CET 2008
On 06/03/2008, Rodolphe Ortalo <rodolphe.ortalo at free.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> make flash-qemu-local fails repeatedly for me (for 4-5 days at least)
> while other qemu-related commands apparently work. I tried to have a
> look at know problems on the wiki, but apparently they were not really
> identical (though similar in some aspects).
>
> Any hint on what the:
> qemu: fatal: Trying to execute code outside RAM or ROM at 0x00000000
> error line actually means? (Image too big?)
That could be an image too big ( > 60MB) but isn't in this case. Qemu
tracked it down to a memory corruption in latest u-boot. Attached
u-boot patch should help (inlined for viewing).
Shows why it's good to test u-boot images in qemu before flashing them
to your Neo and bricking it ;)
--- a/drivers/video/cfb_console.c
+++ b/drivers/video/cfb_console.c
@@ -720,7 +720,7 @@ static void process_sequence(char c)
switch (c) {
case 'J':
/* assume num1 == 2 */
- memsetl(CONSOLE_ROW_FIRST, CONSOLE_SIZE,
+ memsetl(CONSOLE_ROW_FIRST, CONSOLE_SIZE >> 2,
CONSOLE_BG_COL);
break;
case 'H':
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