[U-Boot] [PATCH] zynq: Fix elf header generation

Michal Simek monstr at monstr.eu
Wed Feb 5 08:07:32 CET 2014


On 02/04/2014 09:35 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 04:59:45PM +0100, Michal Simek wrote:
> 
>> This patch is here because of:
>> "arm: keep all sections in ELF file"
>> (sha1: 47ed5dd031d7d2c587e6afd386e79ccec1a1b7f7)
>>
>> Our tools expect to have elf with only LOAD header.
>> Without this fix also PHDR, INTERP and DYNAMIC headers
>> are available in ELF.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek at xilinx.com>
> [snip]
> 
> Two things..
> 
>> +	/*
>> +	 * Deprecated: this MMU section is used by pxa at present but
>> +	 * should not be used by new boards/CPUs.
>> +	 */
>> +	. = ALIGN(4096);
>> +	.mmutable : {
>> +		*(.mmutable)
>> +	}
> 
> You don't need this do you?  If not, drop it..

I don't need it.

> 
> [snip]
>> +	/DISCARD/ : { *(.dynsym) }
>> +	/DISCARD/ : { *(.dynbss*) }
>> +	/DISCARD/ : { *(.dynstr*) }
>> +	/DISCARD/ : { *(.dynamic*) }
>> +	/DISCARD/ : { *(.plt*) }
>> +	/DISCARD/ : { *(.interp*) }
>> +	/DISCARD/ : { *(.gnu*) }
>> +	/DISCARD/ : { *(.ARM.exidx*) }
>> +	/DISCARD/ : { *(.gnu.linkonce.armexidx.*) }
> 
> Here is the difference between your linker script and the main ARM one.
> Please add a comment block that explains that you need to discard more
> sections because the user is expected to pass this image on to tools
> that require them to be dropped so it's clear why there is this delta
> between the scripts.  Thanks!

Fixed in v2.

Thanks,
Michal

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