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

[Amit Virdi]

Adding Albert now...

On 2/3/12, Amit Virdi <amitvi128 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>