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<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'>Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>As part of understanding
of U-Boot, I was looking at customizing the U-Boot linker scripts (With the
help of "Using ld" from GNU) file as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'>(TEXT_BASE = 0x01000000)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'>a) Changed the line in u-boot.lds from ". = + SIZEOF_HEADER" to
<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'>". = 0x1010000 + SIZEOF_HEADER <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'>b) Compared the map file with the change and without the change, it is
seen <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>that there is no change in the
files except the location pointer address.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'>c) Changed the line in u-boot.lds from ".text<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>{<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>cpu/mpc8260/start.o
(.text)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>*(.text)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>*(.fixup)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>*(.got1)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>. = ALIGN(16);<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>*(.rodata)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>*(.rodata1)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>*(.rodata.str1.4)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>}<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;
font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;
font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>to ".text<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;
font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>{<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;
font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>cpu/mpc8260/start.o (.text)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;
font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>*(.text)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;
font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>*(.fixup)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;
font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>*(.got1)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;
font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>. = ALIGN(16);<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;
font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>*(.rodata)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;
font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>*(.rodata1)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;
font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>*(.rodata.str1.4)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;
font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>}"<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;
font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span class=GramE><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font
size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;
font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>d</span></font></b></span><font
color=black><span style='color:black;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'>) Compared the map file with the change and without the change, it is
seen<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>that there is no change in the
files. Shouldn't the text be relocated to the location pointer address?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;
font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;
font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>I am going wrong somewhere in my
understanding. Can someone put me in the right direction? Thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;
font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;
font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>With Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2
color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black;
font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>C.R.Srivatsan<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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