[PATCH] armv8: u-boot-spl.lds: Place binman symbols at end of binary

Jonas Karlman jonas at kwiboo.se
Tue Jan 13 00:58:29 CET 2026


It can be useful in xPL to access symbols from binman, such as the
offset/position and size of a binman entry.

Place these binman symbols together at the end of the xPL binary for
ARMv8, similar to ARM and RISC-V.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Karlman <jonas at kwiboo.se>
---
 arch/arm/cpu/armv8/u-boot-spl.lds | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/u-boot-spl.lds b/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/u-boot-spl.lds
index c4f83ec9cfc4..4c7252f942c9 100644
--- a/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/u-boot-spl.lds
+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/u-boot-spl.lds
@@ -54,6 +54,13 @@ SECTIONS
 		KEEP(*(SORT(__u_boot_list*)));
 	} >.sram
 
+	.binman_sym_table : {
+		. = ALIGN(8);
+		__binman_sym_start = .;
+		KEEP(*(SORT(.binman_sym*)));
+		__binman_sym_end = .;
+	} > .sram
+
 	. = ALIGN(8);
 	__image_copy_end = .;
 	_end = .;
-- 
2.52.0



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