With recent toolchain versions, some boards would not build because
or errors like this one (here for ocotea board when building with
ELDK 4.2 beta):
ppc_4xx-ld: section .bootpg [fffff000 -> fffff23b] overlaps section .bss [fffee900 -> fffff8ab]
For many boards, the .bss section is big enough that it wraps around
at the end of the address space (0xFFFFFFFF), so the problem will not
be visible unless you use a 64 bit tool chain for development. On
some boards however, changes to the code size (due to different
optimizations) we bail out with section overlaps like above.
The fix is to add the NOLOAD attribute to the .bss and .sbss
sections, telling the linker that .bss does not consume any space in
the image.
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Modifications are based on the linux kernel approach and
support two use cases:
1) Add O= to the make command line
'make O=/tmp/build all'
2) Set environement variable BUILD_DIR to point to the desired location
'export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build'
'make'
The second approach can also be used with a MAKEALL script
'export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build'
'./MAKEALL'
Command line 'O=' setting overrides BUILD_DIR environent variable.
When none of the above methods is used the local build is performed and
the object files are placed in the source directory.
- remove all references to CONFIG_INIT_CRITICAL for ARM based boards
- introduce two new configuration options instead:
CONFIG_SKIP_LOWLEVEL_INIT and CONFIG_SKIP_RELOCATE_UBOOT
add IDE support for MPC5200
* Patch by Masami Komiya, 26 Feb 2004:
add autoload via NFS
* Patch by Stephen Williams
Use of CONFIG_SERIAL_SOFTWARE_FIFO in board.c consistent with uses
elsewhere in the source.
NS9750 DevBoard added
* Patch by Pierre AUBERT, 24 Feb 2004
add USB support for MPC5200
* Patch by Steven Scholz, 24 Feb 2004:
- fix MII commands to use values from last command
* Patch by Torsten Demke, 24 Feb 2004:
Add support for the eXalion platform (SPSW-8240, F-30, F-300)
Wolfgang Denk
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