[PATCH 2/2] sandbox: u-boot.lds: Remove bogus __bss_start symbol
Simon Glass
sjg at chromium.org
Sat Aug 22 17:09:25 CEST 2020
On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 at 12:30, Ovidiu Panait <ovidiu.panait at windriver.com> wrote:
>
> The sections described in the sandbox linker script are inserted before
> data section via "INSERT BEFORE .data;". Running readelf -S on sandbox
> u-boot binary shows that the bss section is located after the data
> section:
>
> Section Headers:
> [Nr] Name Type Address Offset
> Size EntSize Flags Link Info Align
> ...
> [25] .u_boot_list PROGBITS 000000000041d1c8 0021d1c8
> 000000000000dd90 0000000000000000 WA 0 0 8
> [26] _u_boot_sandbox_g PROGBITS 000000000042af58 0022af58
> 00000000000000a0 0000000000000000 WA 0 0 8
> [27] .data PROGBITS 000000000042b000 0022b000
> 000000000000f708 0000000000000000 WA 0 0 32
> [28] .bss NOBITS 000000000043a720 0023a708
> 0000000000018930 0000000000000000 WA 0 0 32
>
> This means that the __bss_start assignment in the linker script is bogus,
> as the actual bss section start is located elsewhere. Remove this
> assignment, as the __bss_start symbol is not used on sandbox anyway.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ovidiu Panait <ovidiu.panait at windriver.com>
> ---
>
> arch/sandbox/cpu/u-boot-spl.lds | 2 --
> arch/sandbox/cpu/u-boot.lds | 2 --
> 2 files changed, 4 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
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