[U-Boot] CONFIG_REMAKE_ELF for aarch64

[York Sun]

On 04/02/2014 03:10 AM, FengHua wrote:
> 
>> -----Original Messages-----
>> From: "York Sun" <yorksun at freescale.com>
>> Sent Time: 2014-03-22 02:10:39 (Saturday)
>> To: "Scott Wood" <scottwood at freescale.com>
>> Cc: FengHua <fenghua at phytium.com.cn>, "u-boot at lists.denx.de" <u-boot at lists.denx.de>
>> Subject: CONFIG_REMAKE_ELF for aarch64
>>
>> Scott,
>>
>> I am having a problem recreating u-boot.elf for aarch64 targets. The file is OK
>> when Ttext is aligned with 64KB boundary, for example 0x30000000. But if I use
>> 0x30001000 as the text base, the result u-boot.elf has additional offset of
>> 0x10000. For example, the first instruction should be (from objdump)
>>
>> 30001000:   1400000a        b       30001028
>>
>> But it is
>>
>> 30011000:   1400000a        b       30011028
>>
>> My gcc version is
>>
>> gcc version 4.8.3 20131202 (prerelease) (crosstool-NG linaro-1.13.1-4.8-2013.12
>> - Linaro GCC 2013.11)
>>
>> GNU ld (crosstool-NG linaro-1.13.1-4.8-2013.12 - Linaro GCC 2013.11) 2.24.0.20131220
>>   Supported emulations:
>>    aarch64linux
>>    aarch64elf
>>    aarch64elf32
>>    aarch64elf32b
>>    aarch64elfb
>>    armelf
>>    armelfb
>>    aarch64linuxb
>>    aarch64linux32
>>    aarch64linux32b
>>    armelfb_linux_eabi
>>    armelf_linux_eabi
>>
>> I am hoping you or someone familiar with ABI or something related and shed some
>> light.
>>
>> York
> Maybe this is a bug of aarch64 tool chain.
> 
>
Scott suspects it is an alignment issue with the toolchain. But we didn't get
the bottom of it.

York