[U-Boot] [PATCH 05/10] x86: Rearrange the output input to remove BSS

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Fri Dec 14 22:13:09 CET 2012


At present BSS data is including in the image, which wastes binary space.
Remove it by rearranging the sections so that BSS is last.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---
 arch/x86/cpu/u-boot.lds |   19 ++++++++++++-------
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/cpu/u-boot.lds b/arch/x86/cpu/u-boot.lds
index 2a7d0fd..e455fb9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/cpu/u-boot.lds
+++ b/arch/x86/cpu/u-boot.lds
@@ -46,9 +46,6 @@ SECTIONS
 	.data : { *(.data*) }
 
 	. = ALIGN(4);
-	.dynsym : { *(.dynsym*) }
-
-	. = ALIGN(4);
 	.hash : { *(.hash*) }
 
 	. = ALIGN(4);
@@ -58,10 +55,7 @@ SECTIONS
 	__data_end = .;
 
 	. = ALIGN(4);
-	__bss_start = ABSOLUTE(.);
-	.bss (NOLOAD) : { *(.bss) }
-	. = ALIGN(4);
-	__bss_end = ABSOLUTE(.);
+	.dynsym : { *(.dynsym*) }
 
 	. = ALIGN(4);
 	__rel_dyn_start = .;
@@ -70,6 +64,17 @@ SECTIONS
 	. = ALIGN(4);
 	__end = .;
 
+	. = ALIGN(4);
+
+	__end = .;
+	.bss __rel_dyn_start (OVERLAY) : {
+		__bss_start = .;
+		*(.bss)
+		*(COM*)
+		. = ALIGN(4);
+		__bss_end = .;
+	}
+
 	/DISCARD/ : { *(.dynstr*) }
 	/DISCARD/ : { *(.dynamic*) }
 	/DISCARD/ : { *(.plt*) }
-- 
1.7.7.3



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