[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/6] Second step towards Kbuild: Descend down like Kbuild

[Masahiro Yamada]

Hello Simon


> Can you please explain why you need to change the .lds files - sorry it is
> not obvious to me.


This series changes how objects are linked.

Before this series,
  drivers/bios_emulator/libatibiosemu.o
  drivers/block/libblock.o
  drivers/pcmcia/libpcmcia.o
  ...
are directly linked into ./u-boot at the final link stage.


After this series,
  drivers/bios_emulator/built-in.o
  drivers/block/built-in.o
  drivers/pcmcia/built-in.o
  ...
are combined into drivers/libdrivers.o
and then drivers/libdrivers.o is linked into ./u-boot.


This means that all symbols in
  drivers/bios_emulator/built-in.o
  drivers/block/built-in.o
  drivers/pcmcia/built-in.o
  ...
are also included in drivers/libdrivers.o


> --- a/board/tqc/tqm8xx/u-boot.lds
> +++ b/board/tqc/tqm8xx/u-boot.lds
> @@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ SECTIONS
>      board/tqc/tqm8xx/libtqm8xx.o       (.text*)
>      disk/libdisk.o                     (.text*)
>      drivers/net/libnet.o               (.text*)
> -    drivers/pcmcia/libpcmcia.o         (.text.pcmcia_on)
> -    drivers/pcmcia/libpcmcia.o         (.text.pcmcia_hardware_enable)
> +    drivers/libdrivers.o               (.text.pcmcia_on)
> +    drivers/libdrivers.o               (.text.pcmcia_hardware_enable)
>  
>      . = DEFINED(env_offset) ? env_offset : .;
>      common/env_embedded.o      (.ppcenv*)

This is to avoid multiple definition error at the link stage.

.test.pcmcia_on and .text.pcmcia_hardware_enable
are included in both drivers/pcmcia/built-in.o and drivers/libdrivers.o
so I replaced the former with the latter.


> diff --git a/board/LEOX/elpt860/u-boot.lds b/board/LEOX/elpt860/u-boot.lds
> index f9c2beb..b30b667 100644
> --- a/board/LEOX/elpt860/u-boot.lds
> +++ b/board/LEOX/elpt860/u-boot.lds
> @@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ SECTIONS
>      arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8xx/libmpc8xx.o        (.text*)
>      board/LEOX/elpt860/libelpt860.o    (.text*)
>      arch/powerpc/lib/libpowerpc.o      (.text*)
> -/*    drivers/rtc/librtc.o             (.text*)        */
>  
>      . = env_offset;
>      common/env_embedded.o

Becuase only a comment line is deleted,
this change has no impact and I might not have needed to touch it actually.
I deleted it just because we don't have drivers/rtc/librtc.c any more.




Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada