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

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Wed Jan 21 16:16:50 CET 2026


On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 11:58:29PM +0000, Jonas Karlman wrote:

> 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 = .;

This needs to be rebased and reworked to take in to account commit
8b0ebe054bb3 ("arm: Update linker scripts to ensure appended device tree
is aligned"), thanks.

-- 
Tom
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