[U-Boot] [PATCH] ARMv8: add GOT sections to the list of sections copied

[Simon Glass]

On 24 March 2017 at 12:08, Philipp Tomsich
<philipp.tomsich at theobroma-systems.com> wrote:
> Recent Linux distributions (e.g. Debian 9) include cross-compilers for
> AArch64, but only for the aarch64-linux-gnu triplet only. It can thus
> be expected that users will attempt to use the system cross-compiler
> (instead of an aarch64-elf variant) to compile U-Boot for their ARMv8
> target systems.
>
> One key differences between an aarch64-linux-gnu and an aarch64-elf
> compiler are the default settings regarding position-independent: with
> the aarch64-linux-gnu compiler, the default will create and use the
> global offset table.
>
> This change-set adjusts the list of sections copied on ARMv8 to include
> the GOT sections. With this added, the list matches the previous setup
> for AArch32 closely.
>
> Note that this is not an 'academic' issue, but was in fact encountered
> by our QA during testing of the RK3399-Q7 BSP and resulted in an
> early failure of the SPL stage during FDT setup.
>
> Signed-off-by: Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich at theobroma-systems.com>
> Tested-by: Klaus Goger <klaus.goger at theobroma-systems.com>
>
> ---
>
>  arch/arm/config.mk | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>