[U-Boot] [PATCH] ARMv7: Fix linker errors across toolchain versions
Albert ARIBAUD
albert.aribaud at free.fr
Thu Dec 2 09:26:36 CET 2010
Le 02/12/2010 09:13, Wolfgang Denk a écrit :
> Dear Albert ARIBAUD,
>
> In message<4CF74FED.2030102 at free.fr> you wrote:
>>
>> BTW... Why on Earth is it an uint8? Probably a space saving measure, but
>> one I think is not really fruitful, because of probable paddings and
>> alignments; making it an int would allow using smsc_id directly as
>> values for the OMAP3EVM_BOARD_GEN_1 and OMAP3EVM_BOARD_GEN_2...
>>
>> ... plus it removes the linker warning!
>
> Oops. Why would this make a difference?
Alignement issues, possibly, although we do align the location pointer
before the overlay point -- or some bug in the linker.
>> I thus suggest turning omap3_evm_version from uint8 to int and get on
>> with debugging the board.
>
> No, I don't think this is a good idea as it just papers over an
> existing problem.
Oh--I did not mean to forget the linker warning thing. Just separate the
issues, because I think this particular linker warning is unrelated with
getting the board working.
So Sanjeev would change the u8 to an int and proceed with board debug,
and I would investigate this issue -- actually, try and find a minimal
example that I could go to the binutils list with rather than a
full-blown u-boot tree.
> Does it help when you change the "*(.bss)" in
> "arch/arm/cpu/armv7/u-boot.lds" into "*(.*bss)"
> (so it also includes any .sbss objects) ?
No change.
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
Amicalement,
--
Albert.
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