[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 1/4] u-boot.elf: remove hard-coded arm64 flags

Álvaro Fernández Rojas noltari at gmail.com
Thu Apr 20 18:36:25 UTC 2017


This is needed in order to allow building it for other archs.
Move relocation comment to a better place.
Remove no longer needed dts FIXME.

Signed-off-by: Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari at gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
---
 v4: no changes
 v3: Introduce changes suggested by Daniel Schwierzeck:
  - Split patches.
  - Avoid building it unconditionally.
 v2: Introduce changes suggested by Daniel Schwierzeck:
  - Avoid using a linker script.
  - Reuse aarch64 u-boot.elf generation for other archs.

 Makefile           | 12 +++++-------
 arch/arm/config.mk |  6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 131d62e..8730550 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -747,6 +747,9 @@ BOARD_SIZE_CHECK =
 endif
 
 # Statically apply RELA-style relocations (currently arm64 only)
+# This is useful for arm64 where static relocation needs to be performed on
+# the raw binary, but certain simulators only accept an ELF file (but don't
+# do the relocation).
 ifneq ($(CONFIG_STATIC_RELA),)
 # $(1) is u-boot ELF, $(2) is u-boot bin, $(3) is text base
 DO_STATIC_RELA = \
@@ -1180,14 +1183,9 @@ OBJCOPYFLAGS_u-boot-img-spl-at-end.bin := -I binary -O binary \
 u-boot-img-spl-at-end.bin: u-boot.img spl/u-boot-spl.bin FORCE
 	$(call if_changed,pad_cat)
 
-# Create a new ELF from a raw binary file.  This is useful for arm64
-# where static relocation needs to be performed on the raw binary,
-# but certain simulators only accept an ELF file (but don't do the
-# relocation).
-# FIXME refactor dts/Makefile to share target/arch detection
+# Create a new ELF from a raw binary file.
 u-boot.elf: u-boot.bin
-	@$(OBJCOPY)  -B aarch64 -I binary -O elf64-littleaarch64 \
-		$< u-boot-elf.o
+	@$(OBJCOPY) -I binary $(PLATFORM_ELFFLAGS) $< u-boot-elf.o
 	@$(LD) u-boot-elf.o -o $@ \
 		--defsym=_start=$(CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE) \
 		-Ttext=$(CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE)
diff --git a/arch/arm/config.mk b/arch/arm/config.mk
index 907c693..257ad09 100644
--- a/arch/arm/config.mk
+++ b/arch/arm/config.mk
@@ -30,6 +30,12 @@ PLATFORM_RELFLAGS	+= $(LLVM_RELFLAGS)
 
 PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -D__ARM__
 
+ifdef CONFIG_ARM64
+PLATFORM_ELFFLAGS += -B aarch64 -O elf64-littleaarch64
+else
+PLATFORM_ELFFLAGS += -B arm -O elf32-littlearm
+endif
+
 # Choose between ARM/Thumb instruction sets
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_$(SPL_)SYS_THUMB_BUILD),y)
 AFLAGS_IMPLICIT_IT	:= $(call as-option,-Wa$(comma)-mimplicit-it=always)
-- 
2.1.4



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