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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
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
wdenk
d716b12671 Add startup code to clear the BSS of standalone applications 2004-04-12 16:12:49 +00:00
wdenk
42d1f0394b * Patches by Xianghua Xiao, 15 Oct 2003:
- Added Motorola CPU 8540/8560 support (cpu/85xx)
  - Added Motorola MPC8540ADS board support (board/mpc8540ads)
  - Added Motorola MPC8560ADS board support (board/mpc8560ads)

* Minor code cleanup
2003-10-15 23:53:47 +00:00
wdenk
4a5517094d * Patch by Scott McNutt, 04 Oct 2003:
- add support for Altera Nios-32 CPU
  - add support for Nios Cyclone Development Kit (DK-1C20)

* Patch by Steven Scholz, 29 Sep 2003:
  - A second parameter for bootm overwrites the load address for
    "Standalone Application" images.
  - bootm sets environment variable "filesize" to the resulting
    (uncompressed) data length for "Standalone Application" images
    when autostart is set to "no". Now you can do something like
       if bootm $fpgadata $some_free_ram ; then
               fpga load 0 $some_free_ram $filesize
       fi

* Patch by Denis Peter, 25 Sept 2003:
  add support for the MIP405 Rev. C board
2003-10-08 23:26:14 +00:00