[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 2/4] u-boot.elf: allow overriding entry symbol
Álvaro Fernández Rojas
noltari at gmail.com
Thu Apr 20 18:36:26 UTC 2017
LD gives the following warning when trying to process u-boot-elf.o
warning: cannot find entry symbol __start; defaulting to 0000000080010000
According to gnu-libc the entry symbol for mips is __start and not _start:
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/mips/dl-machine.h;h=ed47513ccc1d23d23d32ee640053d2f351f3990b;hb=HEAD#l258
Signed-off-by: Álvaro Fernández Rojas <noltari at gmail.com>
---
v4: Introduce changes suggested by Tom Rini:
- __start is the standard for MIPS, not ARM.
v3: Introduce changes suggested by Daniel Schwierzeck:
- Split patches.
v2: Introduce changes suggested by Daniel Schwierzeck:
- Fix _start vs __start symbol.
Makefile | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 8730550..6cf2568 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1184,10 +1184,13 @@ u-boot-img-spl-at-end.bin: u-boot.img spl/u-boot-spl.bin FORCE
$(call if_changed,pad_cat)
# Create a new ELF from a raw binary file.
+ifndef PLATFORM_ELFENTRY
+ PLATFORM_ELFENTRY = "_start"
+endif
u-boot.elf: u-boot.bin
@$(OBJCOPY) -I binary $(PLATFORM_ELFFLAGS) $< u-boot-elf.o
@$(LD) u-boot-elf.o -o $@ \
- --defsym=_start=$(CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE) \
+ --defsym=$(PLATFORM_ELFENTRY)=$(CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE) \
-Ttext=$(CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE)
# Rule to link u-boot
--
2.1.4
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