[U-Boot] [PATCH 16/17] 86xx: Use gc-sections to reduce image size

[Peter Tyser]

On an XPedite5170 over 11KBytes were saved:
  Before:
     text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
   319488	  28700	  33204	 381392	  5d1d0	./u-boot

  After:
     text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
   307663	  29144	  33204	 370011	  5a55b	./u-boot

Signed-off-by: Peter Tyser <ptyser at xes-inc.com>
CC: Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc86xx/config.mk  |    4 ++++
 arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc86xx/u-boot.lds |   26 ++++++++------------------
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc86xx/config.mk b/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc86xx/config.mk
index 7fae7e4..bce0fb3 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc86xx/config.mk
+++ b/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc86xx/config.mk
@@ -26,5 +26,9 @@ PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -fPIC -meabi
 PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -ffixed-r2 -mstring
 PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -maltivec -mabi=altivec -msoft-float
 
+# Enable gc-sections to enable generation of smaller images.
+PLATFORM_LDFLAGS += --gc-sections
+PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections
+
 # Use default linker script.  Board port can override in board/*/config.mk
 LDSCRIPT := $(SRCTREE)/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc86xx/u-boot.lds
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc86xx/u-boot.lds b/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc86xx/u-boot.lds
index 4cea3b3..4bfcb90 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc86xx/u-boot.lds
+++ b/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc86xx/u-boot.lds
@@ -60,19 +60,14 @@ SECTIONS
     lib/crc32.o (.text)
     arch/powerpc/lib/extable.o (.text)
     lib/zlib.o (.text)
-    *(.text)
-    *(.got1)
+    *(.text*)
    }
     _etext = .;
     PROVIDE (etext = .);
     .rodata    :
    {
-    *(.eh_frame)
     *(SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT(SORT_BY_NAME(.rodata*)))
   }
-  .fini      : { *(.fini)    } =0
-  .ctors     : { *(.ctors)   }
-  .dtors     : { *(.dtors)   }
 
   /* Read-write section, merged into data segment: */
   . = (. + 0x00FF) & 0xFFFFFF00;
@@ -80,23 +75,19 @@ SECTIONS
   PROVIDE (erotext = .);
   .reloc   :
   {
-    *(.got)
+    KEEP(*(.got))
     _GOT2_TABLE_ = .;
-    *(.got2)
+    KEEP(*(.got2))
     _FIXUP_TABLE_ = .;
-    *(.fixup)
+    KEEP(*(.fixup))
   }
   __got2_entries = (_FIXUP_TABLE_ - _GOT2_TABLE_) >> 2;
   __fixup_entries = (. - _FIXUP_TABLE_) >> 2;
 
   .data    :
   {
-    *(.data)
-    *(.data1)
-    *(.sdata)
-    *(.sdata2)
-    *(.dynamic)
-    CONSTRUCTORS
+    *(.data*)
+    *(.sdata*)
   }
   _edata  =  .;
   PROVIDE (edata = .);
@@ -121,9 +112,8 @@ SECTIONS
   __bss_start = .;
   .bss (NOLOAD)       :
   {
-   *(.sbss) *(.scommon)
-   *(.dynbss)
-   *(.bss)
+   *(.sbss*)
+   *(.bss*)
    *(COMMON)
    . = ALIGN(4);
   }
-- 
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