[PATCH v2] armv8: u-boot-spl.lds: Place binman symbols at end of binary

[Simon Glass]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2026 at 06:21, Jonas Karlman <jonas at kwiboo.se> 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>
> ---
> v2: Rebase on master after "arm: Update linker scripts to ensure
>     appended device tree is aligned".
> ---
>  arch/arm/cpu/armv8/u-boot-spl.lds | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>

Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <simon.glass at canonical.com>



> diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/u-boot-spl.lds b/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/u-boot-spl.lds
> index d9963846c4f4..b732133ce76d 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/u-boot-spl.lds
> +++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/u-boot-spl.lds
> @@ -55,6 +55,14 @@ SECTIONS
>                 . = ALIGN(8);
>         } >.sram
>
> +       .binman_sym_table : {
> +               . = ALIGN(8);
> +               __binman_sym_start = .;
> +               KEEP(*(SORT(.binman_sym*)));
> +               __binman_sym_end = .;
> +               . = ALIGN(8);
> +       } > .sram
> +
>         __image_copy_end = .;
>         _end = .;
>         _image_binary_end = .;
> --
> 2.52.0
>