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Sebastien Carlier
6d8962e814 Switch from archive libraries to partial linking
Before this commit, weak symbols were not overridden by non-weak symbols
found in archive libraries when linking with recent versions of
binutils.  As stated in the System V ABI, "the link editor does not
extract archive members to resolve undefined weak symbols".

This commit changes all Makefiles to use partial linking (ld -r) instead
of creating library archives, which forces all symbols to participate in
linking, allowing non-weak symbols to override weak symbols as intended.
This approach is also used by Linux, from which the gmake function
cmd_link_o_target (defined in config.mk and used in all Makefiles) is
inspired.

The name of each former library archive is preserved except for
extensions which change from ".a" to ".o".  This commit updates
references accordingly where needed, in particular in some linker
scripts.

This commit reveals board configurations that exclude some features but
include source files that depend these disabled features in the build,
resulting in undefined symbols.  Known such cases include:
- disabling CMD_NET but not CMD_NFS;
- enabling CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT but not CONFIG_QE.

Signed-off-by: Sebastien Carlier <sebastien.carlier@gmail.com>
2010-11-17 21:02:18 +01:00
Wolfgang Denk
14d0a02a16 Rename TEXT_BASE into CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE
The change is currently needed to be able to remove the board
configuration scripting from the top level Makefile and replace it by
a simple, table driven script.

Moving this configuration setting into the "CONFIG_*" name space is
also desirable because it is needed if we ever should move forward to
a Kconfig driven configuration system.

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
2010-10-18 22:07:10 +02:00
Scott McNutt
254ab7bd46 nios2: Move individual board linker scripts to common script in cpu tree.
Signed-off-by: Scott McNutt <smcnutt@psyent.com>
2010-04-16 16:12:39 -04:00
Peter Tyser
6a8a2b7058 nios: Move cpu/nios/* to arch/nios/cpu/*
Signed-off-by: Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com>
2010-04-13 09:13:27 +02:00
Trent Piepho
f62fb99941 Fix all linker script to handle all rodata sections
A recent gcc added a new unaligned rodata section called '.rodata.str1.1',
which needs to be added the the linker script.  Instead of just adding this
one section, we use a wildcard ".rodata*" to get all rodata linker section
gcc has now and might add in the future.

However, '*(.rodata*)' by itself will result in sub-optimal section
ordering.  The sections will be sorted by object file, which causes extra
padding between the unaligned rodata.str.1.1 of one object file and the
aligned rodata of the next object file.  This is easy to fix by using the
SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT command.

This patch has not be tested one most of the boards modified.  Some boards
have a linker script that looks something like this:

*(.text)
. = ALIGN(16);
*(.rodata)
*(.rodata.str1.4)
*(.eh_frame)

I change this to:

*(.text)
. = ALIGN(16);
*(.eh_frame)
*(SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT(SORT_BY_NAME(.rodata*)))

This means the start of rodata will no longer be 16 bytes aligned.
However, the boundary between text and rodata/eh_frame is still aligned to
16 bytes, which is what I think the real purpose of the ALIGN call is.

Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
2009-03-20 22:39:12 +01:00
Wolfgang Denk
c8a3b109f0 Cleanup out-or-tree building for some boards (.depend)
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
2008-07-02 23:49:18 +02:00
Becky Bruce
9973e3c614 Change initdram() return type to phys_size_t
This patch changes the return type of initdram() from long int to phys_size_t.
This is required for a couple of reasons: long int limits the amount of dram
to 2GB, and u-boot in general is moving over to phys_size_t to represent the
size of physical memory.  phys_size_t is defined as an unsigned long on almost
all current platforms.

This patch *only* changes the return type of the initdram function (in
include/common.h, as well as in each board's implementation of initdram).  It
does not actually modify the code inside the function on any of the platforms;
platforms which wish to support more than 2GB of DRAM will need to modify
their initdram() function code.

Build tested with MAKEALL for ppc, arm, mips, mips-el. Booted on powerpc
MPC8641HPCN.

Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <becky.bruce@freescale.com>
2008-06-12 08:50:18 +02:00
Wolfgang Denk
64134f0112 Fix linker scripts: add NOLOAD atribute to .bss/.sbss sections
With recent toolchain versions, some boards would not build because
or errors like this one (here for ocotea board when building with
ELDK 4.2 beta):
ppc_4xx-ld: section .bootpg [fffff000 -> fffff23b] overlaps section .bss [fffee900 -> fffff8ab]

For many boards, the .bss section is big enough that it wraps around
at the end of the address space (0xFFFFFFFF), so the problem will not
be visible unless you use a 64 bit tool chain for development. On
some boards however, changes to the code size (due to different
optimizations) we bail out with section overlaps like above.

The fix is to add the NOLOAD attribute to the .bss and .sbss
sections, telling the linker that .bss does not consume any space in
the image.

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
2008-01-12 20:31:39 +01:00
Wolfgang Denk
2b208f5308 Move "ar" flags to config.mk to allow for silent "make -s"
Based on patch by Mike Frysinger, 20 Jun 2006
2006-10-09 01:02:05 +02:00
Marian Balakowicz
f93286397e Add support for a saving build objects in a separate directory.
Modifications are based on the linux kernel approach and
support two use cases:

  1) Add O= to the make command line
  'make O=/tmp/build all'

  2) Set environement variable BUILD_DIR to point to the desired location
  'export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build'
  'make'

The second approach can also be used with a MAKEALL script
'export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build'
'./MAKEALL'

Command line 'O=' setting overrides BUILD_DIR environent variable.

When none of the above methods is used the local build is performed and
the object files are placed in the source directory.
2006-09-01 19:49:50 +02:00
Wolfgang Denk
807d5d7319 Fix problems with ld version 2.16 (dot outside sections problem)
Pointed out by Gerhard Jaeger, 31 Aug 2005;
cf. http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2005-08/msg00412.html
2005-08-31 12:28:00 +02:00
wdenk
5c952cf024 Patches by Scott McNutt, 24 Aug 2004:
- Add support for Altera Nios-II processors.
- Add support for Psyent PCI-5441 board.
- Add support for Psyent PK1C20 board.
2004-10-10 21:27:30 +00:00