[U-Boot] [PATCH 01/24] 0000-Address-partial-linking-issues

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <1290700844-31427-1-git-send-email-wd at denx.de> you wrote:
> 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 probably to enable -ffunction-sections (and
> -ffunction-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.
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Whole series (latest versions of the patches) applied.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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