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Po-Yu Chuang
44c6e6591c rename _end to __bss_end__
Currently, _end is used for end of BSS section.  We want _end to mean
end of u-boot image, so we rename _end to __bss_end__ first.

Signed-off-by: Po-Yu Chuang <ratbert@faraday-tech.com>
2011-03-27 19:18:37 +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
Selvamuthukumar
9b827cf172 Align end of bss by 4 bytes
Most of the bss initialization loop increments 4 bytes
at a time. And the loop end is checked for an 'equal'
condition. Make the bss end address aligned by 4, so
that the loop will end as expected.

Signed-off-by: Selvamuthukumar <selva.muthukumar@e-coninfotech.com>
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
2008-11-18 23:13:16 +01:00
Kyungmin Park
751b9b5189 OneNAND Initial Program Loader (IPL) support
This patch enables the OneNAND boot within U-Boot.
Before this work, we used another OneNAND IPL called X-Loader based
on open source. With this work, we can build the oneboot.bin image
without other program.

The build sequence is simple.
First, it compiles the u-boot.bin
Second, it compiles OneNAND IPL
Finally, it becomes the oneboot.bin from OneNAND IPL and u-boot.bin
The mechanism is similar with NAND boot except it boots from itself.

Another thing is that you can only use the OneNAND IPL only to work
other bootloader such as RedBoot and so on.

Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
2008-02-14 22:08:13 +01:00