[U-Boot] [PATCH] OMAP3: EVM: Convert omap3_evm_version to u32

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Sat Dec 18 23:12:36 CET 2010


Dear Dirk Behme,

In message <1292654428-19095-1-git-send-email-dirk.behme at gmail.com> you wrote:
> Convert the variable omap3_evm_version to u32 to work around
> some broken linkers from older tool chains. E.g. CodeSourcery's
> 2009q1-203 ld 2.19.51.20090205. Without this, these linkers
> stop linking 'omap3_evm' or at least issue a warning. Like 
> 
> arm-none-linux-gnueabi-ld: section .bss [8003f5e0 -> 8007e337] overlaps section .rel.dyn [8003f5e0 -> 80044e57]
> arm-none-linux-gnueabi-ld: section .dynsym [80044e58 -> 80044ef7] overlaps section.bss [8003f5e0 -> 8007e337]
> arm-none-linux-gnueabi-ld: u-boot: section .bss vma 0x8003f5e0 overlaps previous sections 
> 
> CC: Sanjeev Premi <premi at ti.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme at googlemail.com>
> 
> ---
> 
> For a discussion of this see
> 
> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2010-December/083706.html
> 
>  board/ti/evm/evm.c |    4 ++--
>  board/ti/evm/evm.h |    2 +-
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

I'm still unhappy about this solution, but as it appears to be the
only fix we can come up with now I pull this now.

Sandeep, hope this is OK with you.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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