[U-Boot] [PATCH 12/24 V3] POWERPC: enable --gc-sections and -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections

[Wolfgang Denk]

The switch from archive libraries to partial linking has introduced a
number of problems, that are non-trivial to solve.  For example, it is
no longer possible to include individual object files in the linker
script as we did before for example in the case of boards with
embedded environment to fill up the gap caused by the need to align
the environment on flash erase block boundaries.

The best (but unfortunately not easiest) approach to address this
problem is to enable -ffunction-sections (and -fdata-sections) so
we can again (and even in much finer granularity) place certain code
where we want it.  When doing this step, it seems only consequent to
also add --gc-sections which has the added benefit of reducing the
memory footprint of the U-Boot image (both in flash and in RAM).

Unfortunately, this requires changes to a lot of linker scripts.

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de>
Cc: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>
Cc: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips at freescale.com>
Cc: Andy Fleming <afleming at gmail.com>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>

---
 arch/powerpc/config.mk             |    4 ++--
 arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/config.mk |    4 ----
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/config.mk b/arch/powerpc/config.mk
index 5bc849c..2912604 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/config.mk
+++ b/arch/powerpc/config.mk
@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@ CROSS_COMPILE ?= ppc_8xx-
 
 STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR = 0x40000
 
-PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -mrelocatable
+PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -mrelocatable -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections
 PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -DCONFIG_PPC -D__powerpc__
-PLATFORM_LDFLAGS  += -n
+PLATFORM_LDFLAGS  += -n --gc-sections
 
 ifdef CONFIG_SYS_LDSCRIPT
 # need to strip off double quotes
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/config.mk b/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/config.mk
index 3f3d096..66d1741 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/config.mk
+++ b/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/config.mk
@@ -25,10 +25,6 @@ PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -fPIC -meabi
 
 PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -ffixed-r2 -Wa,-me500 -msoft-float -mno-string
 
-# Enable gc-sections to enable generation of smaller images.
-PLATFORM_LDFLAGS += --gc-sections
-PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections
-
 # -mspe=yes is needed to have -mno-spe accepted by a buggy GCC;
 # see "[PATCH,rs6000] make -mno-spe work as expected" on
 # http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-04/msg00311.html
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