[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] mpc85xx: Update linker scripts for Freescale boards

[Kumar Gala]

On Jul 30, 2008, at 11:07 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

> In message <Pine.LNX.4.64.0807301045330.6787 at blarg.am.freescale.net>  
> you wrote:
>>
>>   .text      :
>>   {
>>     cpu/mpc85xx/start.o	(.text)
>> -    cpu/mpc85xx/traps.o (.text)
>> -    cpu/mpc85xx/interrupts.o (.text)
>> -    cpu/mpc85xx/cpu_init.o (.text)
>> -    cpu/mpc85xx/cpu.o (.text)
>> -    cpu/mpc85xx/speed.o (.text)
>> -    cpu/mpc85xx/pci.o (.text)
>> -    common/dlmalloc.o (.text)
>> -    lib_generic/crc32.o (.text)
>> -    lib_ppc/extable.o (.text)
>> -    lib_generic/zlib.o (.text)
>> +    drivers/bios_emulator/atibios.o (.text)
>>     *(.text)
>
> When you exclude all the other objects here, then why do you have to
> include atibios.o ?

Ok, the issue is that the atibios/x86 emu was causing _end not to be 4- 
byte aligned and by putting in earlier it would get aligned for us.   
I've posted a new patch that adds a proper ALIGN for _end and dropped  
the explicit listing of atibios.o and start.o since they aren't needed.

- k