[PATCH 09/10] sandbox: Update linker scripts to ensure appended device tree is aligned

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Thu Jan 15 23:19:39 CET 2026


With commit 0535e46d55d7 ("scripts/dtc: Update to upstream version
v1.7.2-35-g52f07dcca47c") it is now a fatal error to U-Boot if our
device tree is not 8-byte aligned. In commit f613a6e15ef7 ("ARM: OMAP2+:
Pad SPL binary to 8-byte alignment before DTB") Beleswar Padhi explains
that we must have ALIGN(x) statements inside of a section to ensure that
padding is included and not simply that the linker address counter is
incremented. To that end, this patch:
- Aligns the final section before _image_binary_end (for xPL phases) by
  8-bytes by adding '. = ALIGN(8);' to the final section before the
  symbol.
- Ensure that we do have alignment by adding an ASSERT so that when not
  aligned we fail to link (and explain why).

Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
---
Cc: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas at linaro.org>
Cc: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut+renesas at mailbox.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson at linaro.org>
Cc: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---
 arch/sandbox/cpu/u-boot-spl.lds | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/sandbox/cpu/u-boot-spl.lds b/arch/sandbox/cpu/u-boot-spl.lds
index a81d66a6f2e8..bd5a164b8c95 100644
--- a/arch/sandbox/cpu/u-boot-spl.lds
+++ b/arch/sandbox/cpu/u-boot-spl.lds
@@ -25,9 +25,13 @@ SECTIONS
 		*(_u_boot_sandbox_getopt_start)
 		KEEP(*(_u_boot_sandbox_getopt))
 		*(_u_boot_sandbox_getopt_end)
+		. = ALIGN(8);
 	}
 
 	_image_binary_end = .;
 }
 
 INSERT AFTER .data;
+
+ASSERT(_image_binary_end % 8 == 0, \
+       "_image_binary_end must be 8-byte aligned for device tree");
-- 
2.43.0



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