[U-Boot] [PATCH] spl: remove forced linking of commands into SPL

Tom Rini trini at ti.com
Thu Aug 9 16:35:55 CEST 2012


On 08/08/2012 07:24 PM, Tyler Olmstead wrote:

> Remove linker command line options from the SPL makefile
> that force the inclusion of unreferenced command code from
> linked object files. As commands are not used in the SPL,
> these options resulted in an unnecessary increase in the
> image size, in addition to introducing the possibility of
> tricky link errors in the case where the command code
> contained symbols that were not resolved by linking in the
> limited objects compiled in the SPL build.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tyler Olmstead <tyler.j.olmstead at gmail.com>

Without either figuring out how to make the strings be garbage collected
automatically (I'm talking with a toolchain friend of mine about how to
try and do this) or whacking U_BOOT_CMD to do this for us, we will start
adding bloat to SPL after we do this.

-- 
Tom


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