[U-Boot] still an issue ?? - Can't get strong symbol to override weak one

[Joachim Rahn]

Dear Sebastian,

thanks for the fast response!

O.k. so I will use my small local workaround until your proposed
patch is accepted and included in the official source tree.

Best regards,
Joachim

On 17.11.2010 13:41, Sebastien Carlier wrote:
> Dear Joachim,
> 
> On 2010-11-17 11:38:54, Joachim Rahn wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've ported u-boot to our ARM board based on at91sam9263.
>>
>> When I try to use the LED functions I have problems getting
>> strong symbols overriden by weak ones.
>>
>> I'm just stumbling upon the archive entries
>> 	http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2008-June/035540.html
>> and
>> 	http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2008-July/037619.html
>>
>> Seems I have exact that problem.
>> Has this been solved?
> 
> This issue is solved by this patch:
> 
>     http://www.denx.de/wiki/pub/U-Boot/TooBigPatches/0001-Switch-from-archive-libraries-to-partial-linking-v4.patch
> 
> Here is the relevant thread from the mailing list:
> 
>     http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg41959.html
> 
> Note that the patch has not yet made it into U-Boot and may change again
> before it is accepted.
> 
> Regards,