All architectures but MIPS are using --gc-sections on final linking.
This patch introduces that feature for MIPS to reduce the memory and
flash footprint.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Schwierzeck <daniel.schwierzeck@googlemail.com>
Cc: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Cc: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Cc: Thomas Lange <thomas@corelatus.se>
Cc: Vlad Lungu <vlad.lungu@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Shinya Kuribayashi <skuribay@pobox.com>
Commit 44c6e65 "rename _end to __bss_end__ broke building of a large
number of systems (at least all PowerPC?):
libstubs.o: In function `app_startup':
examples/standalone/stubs.c:197: undefined reference to `__bss_end__'
The rename should not be done for the files in the
examples/standalone/ directory, as these are not using the code from
start.S, but do their own BSS clearing, and either use their own
linker scripts or the ones provided by the compilers.
Signed-off-by: Po-Yu Chuang <ratbert@faraday-tech.com>
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Currently, _end is used for end of BSS section. We want _end to mean
end of u-boot image, so we rename _end to __bss_end__ first.
Signed-off-by: Po-Yu Chuang <ratbert@faraday-tech.com>
From the document, if set all arguments in "OUTPUT_FORMAT" to
"tradbigmips", then even add "-EL" to gcc we still get EB format.
pb1x00 is only used in Little-endian, so its default endian should be
set to LE.
Signed-off-by: Xiangfu Liu <xiangfu@openmobilefree.net>
Signed-off-by: Shinya Kuribayashi <skuribay@pobox.com>
The current files in examples are all standalone application examples,
so put them in their own subdirectory for organizational purposes
Signed-off-by: Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com>
A recent gcc added a new unaligned rodata section called '.rodata.str1.1',
which needs to be added the the linker script. Instead of just adding this
one section, we use a wildcard ".rodata*" to get all rodata linker section
gcc has now and might add in the future.
However, '*(.rodata*)' by itself will result in sub-optimal section
ordering. The sections will be sorted by object file, which causes extra
padding between the unaligned rodata.str.1.1 of one object file and the
aligned rodata of the next object file. This is easy to fix by using the
SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT command.
This patch has not be tested one most of the boards modified. Some boards
have a linker script that looks something like this:
*(.text)
. = ALIGN(16);
*(.rodata)
*(.rodata.str1.4)
*(.eh_frame)
I change this to:
*(.text)
. = ALIGN(16);
*(.eh_frame)
*(SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT(SORT_BY_NAME(.rodata*)))
This means the start of rodata will no longer be 16 bytes aligned.
However, the boundary between text and rodata/eh_frame is still aligned to
16 bytes, which is what I think the real purpose of the ALIGN call is.
Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
Most of the bss initialization loop increments 4 bytes
at a time. And the loop end is checked for an 'equal'
condition. Make the bss end address aligned by 4, so
that the loop will end as expected.
Signed-off-by: Selvamuthukumar <selva.muthukumar@e-coninfotech.com>
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
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>
Ensure that __got_start points to top of the `.got', and __got_end points
to bottom as well, so that we never fail to count num_got_entries.
Signed-off-by: Shinya Kuribayashi <shinya.kuribayashi@necel.com>
applications: instead of using (PPC-specific) system calls we now
use a jump table; please see doc/README.standalone for details
* Patch by Dave Westwood, 24 Jul 2003:
added support for Unity OS (a proprietary OS)
- remove trailing white space, trailing empty lines, C++ comments, etc.
- split cmd_boot.c (separate cmd_bdinfo.c and cmd_load.c)
* Patches by Kenneth Johansson, 25 Jun 2003:
- major rework of command structure
(work done mostly by Michal Cendrowski and Joakim Kristiansen)
Add support for Atmel AT91RM9200DK w/NAND
* Patches by Robert Schwebel, 19 Mar 2003:
- use arm-linux-gcc as default compiler for ARM
- fix i2c fixup code
- fix missing baudrate setting
- added $loadaddr / CFG_LOAD_ADDR support to loadb
- moved "ignoring trailing characters" _before_ u-boot wants to
print out diagnostics messages; removes bogus characters at the
end of transmission
* Patch by John Zhan, 18 Mar 2003:
Add support for SinoVee Microsystems SC8xx boards
* Patch by Rolf Offermanns, 21 Mar 2003:
ported the dnp1110 related changes from the current armboot cvs to
current u-boot cvs. smc91111 does not work. problem marked in
smc91111.c, grep for "FIXME".
* Patch by Brian Auld, 25 Mar 2003:
Add support for STM flash chips on ebony board
* Add PCI support for MPC8250 Boards (PM825 module)
* Patch by Stefan Roese, 25 Mar 2003:
- minimal setup for CardBus bridges
- add EEPROM read/write support in the CS8900 driver
- add support for the builtin I2C controller in the Samsung s3c24x0 chips
- add support for MPL's VCMA9 (Samsung s3c2410 based) board
* Patch by Steven Scholz, 04 Feb 2003:
add support for RTC DS1307
* Patch by Reinhard Meyer, 5 Feb 2003:
fix PLPRCR/SCCR init sequence on 8xx to allow for
changes of EBDF by software
* Patch by Vladimir Gurevich, 07 Feb 2003:
"API-compatibility patch" for 4xx I2C driver
Wolfgang Denk
Zhi-zhou Zhang
Daniel Schwierzeck
Po-Yu Chuang
Xiangfu Liu
Peter Tyser
Trent Piepho
Selvamuthukumar
Shinya Kuribayashi
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