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>
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.
- Improve platform.S code for omap1510inn that detects whether code
is running from SDRAM or not. Patch allows SDRAM to be configured
if code is running out of SRAM at 0x20000000.
* Patch by Frederick Klatt, 30 Aug 2004:
Add support for the Wind River SBC8540/SBC8560 boards
* Patches by Michael Bendzick, 30 Aug 2004:
- Configure omap1510inn board to use drivers/cfi_flash.c
- Make drivers/cfi_flash.c protect environment and redundant
environment.
* Patch by Steven Scholz, 23 Jun 2004:
- Add script (tools/img2brec.sh) to programm U-Boot into
(Synch)Flash using the Bootstrap Mode of the MC9328MX1/L
ARM memory layout fixes: the abort-stack is now set up in the
correct RAM area, and the BSS is zeroed out as it should be.
Furthermore, the magic variables 'armboot_end' and 'armboot_end_data'
of the linker scripts are replaced by '__bss_start' and '_end',
resp., which is a further step to eliminate unnecessary differences
between the implementation of the CPU architectures.
- fix spelling errors
- set GD_FLG_DEVINIT flag only after device function pointers
are valid
- Allow CFG_ALT_MEMTEST on systems where address zero isn't
writeable
- enable 3.rd UART (ST-UART) on PXA(XScale) CPUs
- trigger watchdog while waiting in serial driver
fix TI Innovator/OMAP1510 pin configs
* Patches by Kshitij, 18 Aug 2003
- add support for arm926ejs cpu core
- add support for TI OMAP 1610 Innovator Board