Sam Leffler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Huh? What does "static linking" mean? If you're looking for an example > of a firmware image being embedded in a kernel look at the npe firmware > used by xscale.
Kip, Before spending time on this, be warned that I tried this for mxge last year, and I gave up because it was such a headache. The final straw was that building the firmware into a .fwo file via a files file rule doesn't work on platforms like ia64 due some toolchain problems. Specifically, there was no way to get the constant-gp flag set on an ld -b binary image, which caused the final kernel link command to explode. Rather than use the .fwo method, I committed some .c shims (see dev/mxge/mxge_eth_z8e.c) which just #include my firmware header files. This avoids the linking problems, and turns out to be much, much easier to work with than the fw_stub files file method. Drew _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
