[U-Boot-Users] u-boot.lds questions
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Wed Jan 19 22:38:10 CET 2005
In message <41EE4C83.9020604 at web.de> you wrote:
>
> To do so I just copied some u-boot.lds from some other port.
> I know that the u-boot.lds is a linker script that instructs the linker
> to put code elements together in some specific way. At least the first
> part does so. But the lower parts of the u-boot.lds I copied seem to be
> increasingly deep magic. So... what does the u-boot.lds do exactly and
I can't put it any better: It is a linker script that instructs the
linker to put code elements together in some specific way.
> what happens if mine is wrong/broken? And why do I need it anyway?
Your code will not run and/or crash.
You need it to get a working image.
> Does that look reasonable/good?
This is impossible to say from this information. u-boot.map might be
interesting to check - for you; please don't post it here, though.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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