[U-Boot] [PATCH] README.commands: Document what UNDEF_SYM does

Tom Rini trini at ti.com
Wed Sep 19 01:42:52 CEST 2012


Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini at ti.com>
---
 doc/README.commands |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/README.commands b/doc/README.commands
index 27815d2..21abfb6 100644
--- a/doc/README.commands
+++ b/doc/README.commands
@@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ This makes it possible for the final link to extract all commands
 compiled into any object code and construct a static array so the
 command can be found in an array starting at __u_boot_cmd_start.
 
+To ensure that the linker does not discard these symbols when linking
+full U-Boot we use generate a list of all of the commands and force the
+linker to first enter the symbol as undefined in the object so that
+there is then a need for the symbol to be kept (UNDEF_SYM in the
+Makefile).
+
 If a new board is defined do not forget to define the command section
 by writing in u-boot.lds ($(TOPDIR)/board/boardname/u-boot.lds) these
 3 lines:
-- 
1.7.9.5



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