[U-Boot] Some M68K boards are depending the specific order of libraries

Masahiro Yamada yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com
Wed Dec 11 11:35:19 CET 2013


Hi Andreas,


> > The build will fail with error messages
> > " relocation truncated to fit: R_68K_PC16 against symbol"
> > 
> > What is this error?
> 
> It is a linker error stating that the specific call (for example 'bsr
> cpu_init_f' @start.S:201) will not work cause (and this is guessing) the
> PC relative jump with 16 bit offset can not work cause the symbol
> cpu_init_f is to far away.
> I had similiar issue in linux kernel for avr32 these days. I found a
> work around, please read https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/10/24/156 to
> understand it.

Thanks!

I could understand well.
But, I am not a M68K expert, nor have a M68K board.
So, I will wait for a while until M68K maintainers catch this.

Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada



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