[U-Boot] linking rockchip-linux/u-boot.git with binutils-2.28

[Simon Glass]

+Tom

Hi Peter,

On 8 March 2017 at 01:43, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 8:22 AM, Trevor Woerner <twoerner at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed 2017-03-08 @ 02:39:00 AM, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> >> It appears as though linking u-boot with binutils-2.28 fails:
> >>
> >>       arm-oe-linux-gnueabi-ld.bfd: u-boot: Not enough room for program headers, try linking with -N
> >
> > ...and as it turns out linking with -N succeeds! Who knew? The help message
> > was actually helpful! :-D
>
> I'm glad this wasn't just me seeing this. I have seen breakage with
> this too but hadn't had time to investigate this further than just
> realising it was the new binutils.
>
> Simon is adding -N the proper fix? Might be useful to get a fix into
> 2017.03 GA as I'm sure in the coming weeks the new binutils will start
> to land more widely in various distros.

Well we only have a few more days so if you want that please send a
patch and we'll see what Tom says. What does the -N flag do?

Regards,
Simon