multiboot.S patch for old as(1) (was: Re: [Qemu-devel] Some OpenBSD/amd64 build fixes)

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:55:02PM +0200, Juergen Lock wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 09:31:16PM +0100, Laurence Tratt wrote:
>[...]
> >  then the above error doesn't occur, but
> > pc-bios/optionrom/multiboot.S dies as follows:
> >
> >   $
> >     AS    optionrom/multiboot.o
> >   multiboot.S: Assembler messages:
> >   multiboot.S:116: Error: `%es:-4(%edi)' is not a valid 16 bit base/index
> > expression
> >   $
> >
> > What little Intel assembler I ever knew has long since departed from my
> > brain, so I don't know why that error occurs, nor what a fix might be.
> >
>  It occurs because of too old binutils (as(1) in this case), on FreeBSD
> we now have a port for newer ones,
> 	http://www.freshports.org/devel/binutils
> so I depend on that and have the optionrom Makefile use the new as
> like this: (the first change wrt CFLAGS is unrelated and has probably
> been fixed in the meantime; it caused gmake to complain about
> recursive use of CFLAGS.)
>
> Index: qemu/pc-bios/optionrom/Makefile
> @@ -9,10 +9,13 @@
>
>  CFLAGS = -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Werror -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-builtin
>  CFLAGS += -I$(SRC_PATH)
> -CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, $(CFLAGS), -fno-stack-protector,"")
> +CFLAGS := $(CFLAGS) $(call cc-option, $(CFLAGS), -fno-stack-protector,"")
>
>  build-all: multiboot.bin
>
> +%.o: %.S
> +	$(CC) -E $(CFLAGS) -o - -c $< |${LOCALBASE}/bin/as -V -Qy -o $@
> +
>  %.img: %.o
>  	$(call quiet-command,$(LD) -Ttext 0 -e _start -s -o $@ $<,"  Building $(TARGET_DIR)$@")
>

That patch didn't seem to help on OpenBSD so I now finally got around
making another one that just emits the bytes of the offending insn
instead so people can keep using old assemblers:

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
