[U-Boot] ARM ld: .bss overlaps section .rel.dyn

[Amit Virdi]

Albert,

Any suggestions?

Thanks
Amit Virdi

On 2/1/12, Amit Virdi <amitvi128 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm in the process of updating platform support for spear series of
> SoC on the latest u-boot.
> I picked u-boot v2011.12. I tried compiling for different spear boards
> (spear 300, 310, 300 and spear600). In every compilation, I'm getting
> following errors:
>
> -----------------------
> arm-linux-ld: section .bss [007263cc -> 00728c5b] overlaps section
> .rel.dyn [007263cc -> 0072a623]
> arm-linux-ld: u-boot: section .bss lma 0x7263cc overlaps previous sections
> make: *** [u-boot] Error 1
> -----------------------
>
> This is one case.
>
> Now if I apply some patches -all of them are either enhancing the
> features or are bug fixes -  over the base line code, my code compiles
> *after* certain patch. None of these patches is changing any linker
> script.
>
> I drilled down to the last patch that made the code compile without
> error. Specifically, that commit is configuring Network support for
> SPEAr SoCs.
>
> Anyways, I did try to compare the map files generated for the good and
> the bad case but really couldn't conclude much!!
>
> Any pointers?
>
> Thanks
> Amit Virdi
>