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When calculating the offsets of the various binary blobs within the
coreboot.rom file, we noticed that using mawk as the awk tool instead
of using gawk led to build issues. This was finally traced to the
maximum value of the unsigned long variables within mawk - 0x7fff_ffff.
Because we were doing calculations on values up in the 0xffxxxxxx
range, these numbers would either be turned into floating point values
and printed using scientific notation, or truncated at 0x7fff_ffff.
To fix this, we print the values out as floating point, with no decimal
digits. This works in gawk, mawk, and original-awk and as the testing
below show, seems to be the best way to do this.
printf %u 0xFFFFFFFF | awk '{printf("%.0f %u %d", $1 , $1 , $1 )}'
mawk: 4294967295 2147483647 2147483647
original-awk: 4294967295 2147483648 4294967295
gawk: 4294967295 4294967295 4294967295
The issue of %d not matching gawk and original-awk has been reported
to ubuntu.
In the future, I'd recommend that whenever awk is used, a format is
specified. It doesn't seem that we can count on the representation
being the same between the different versions.
Change-Id: I7b6b821c8ab13ad11f72e674ac726a98e8678710
Signed-off-by: Martin Roth <martin.roth@se-eng.com>
Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/2628
Reviewed-by: Dave Frodin <dave.frodin@se-eng.com>
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Stefan Reinauer <stefan.reinauer@coreboot.org>
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- coreboot README ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- coreboot is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the proprietary BIOS (firmware) found in most computers. coreboot performs a little bit of hardware initialization and then executes additional boot logic, called a payload. With the separation of hardware initialization and later boot logic, coreboot can scale from specialized applications that run directly firmware, run operating systems in flash, load custom bootloaders, or implement firmware standards, like PC BIOS services or UEFI. This allows for systems to only include the features necessary in the target application, reducing the amount of code and flash space required. coreboot was formerly known as LinuxBIOS. Payloads -------- After the basic initialization of the hardware has been performed, any desired "payload" can be started by coreboot. See http://www.coreboot.org/Payloads for a list of supported payloads. Supported Hardware ------------------ coreboot supports a wide range of chipsets, devices, and mainboards. For details please consult: * http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards * http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Chipsets_and_Devices Build Requirements ------------------ * gcc / g++ * make Optional: * doxygen (for generating/viewing documentation) * iasl (for targets with ACPI support) * gdb (for better debugging facilities on some targets) * ncurses (for 'make menuconfig') * flex and bison (for regenerating parsers) Building coreboot ----------------- Please consult http://www.coreboot.org/Build_HOWTO for details. Testing coreboot Without Modifying Your Hardware ------------------------------------------------ If you want to test coreboot without any risks before you really decide to use it on your hardware, you can use the QEMU system emulator to run coreboot virtually in QEMU. Please see http://www.coreboot.org/QEMU for details. Website and Mailing List ------------------------ Further details on the project, a FAQ, many HOWTOs, news, development guidelines and more can be found on the coreboot website: http://www.coreboot.org You can contact us directly on the coreboot mailing list: http://www.coreboot.org/Mailinglist Copyright and License --------------------- The copyright on coreboot is owned by quite a large number of individual developers and companies. Please check the individual source files for details. coreboot is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). Some files are licensed under the "GPL (version 2, or any later version)", and some files are licensed under the "GPL, version 2". For some parts, which were derived from other projects, other (GPL-compatible) licenses may apply. Please check the individual source files for details. This makes the resulting coreboot images licensed under the GPL, version 2.