Sections .dynamic and .dynsym in UEFI binaries

[Simon Glass]

Hi Heinrich,

On Sat, 29 Aug 2020 at 02:31, Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Hello Simon,
>
> with commit c7ae3dfdccc1 ("efi: Add support for a hello world test
> program") you added section .dynamic and .dynsym to generated UEFI binaries.
>
> It is unclear to me why those sections should be needed. According to
> https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/819-0690/chapter6-42444.html
> section .dynamic is only used for dynamic linking.
>
> On RISC-V inclusion of .dynsym leeds to a file that is longer then the
> value of SizeOfImage in the optional header.
>
> On x86 and x86_64 we have a general problem that SizeOfImage does not
> match the actual file size.

I think this was brought over from arch/x86/config.mk

If it still works without it then it is OK to drop those two sections.

Regards,
Simon