[U-Boot] [PATCH] arc: Fix final linkage with Elf32 tools

[Alexey Brodkin]

ARC Elf32 tools by default enable usage of so-called "small data"
section or in ARC PRM parlance "GP-relative addressing".

The idea is to put up to 2kB of frequently used data into a separate
location and use indirect addressing via dedicated core register (GP).
Where GP is used as a base for offset calculation.

And so if "-msdata" toggle is passed to the compiler either explicitly
or implicitly (that's Elf32 tools case) it will try to put some data
in that "small data" area and then to calculate real offset from GP
to be encoded in instructions we need to know the base value which
liker gets from __SDATA_BEGIN__ symbol in hte linker script.

In U-Boot we don't use that feature and linker script doesn't define
__SDATA_BEGIN__ which gives us the following linkage error if we use
Elf32 tools:
------------------------->8-------------------
  LD      u-boot
.../bin/arc-elf32-ld.bfd: Error: Linker symbol __SDATA_BEGIN__ not found
.../bin/arc-elf32-ld.bfd: final link failed: Bad value
------------------------->8-------------------

Note if uClibc or glibc tools are used that problem doesn't happen
because usage of "small data section" is disabled by default as not very
useful for bigger executables. Moreover GP is just another name of r26
so we're loosing 1 core register which is not used by the compiler as a
generic register with "-msdata".

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin at synopsys.com>
---
 arch/arc/config.mk | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arc/config.mk b/arch/arc/config.mk
index 13676bd0c8e1..3ed0c282bae0 100644
--- a/arch/arc/config.mk
+++ b/arch/arc/config.mk
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ ifdef CONFIG_CPU_ARCHS38
 PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -mcpu=archs
 endif
 
-PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -ffixed-r25 -D__ARC__ -gdwarf-2
+PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -ffixed-r25 -D__ARC__ -gdwarf-2 -mno-sdata
 
 # Needed for relocation
 LDFLAGS_FINAL += -pie
-- 
2.14.3