early_board_init has been skipped to avoid SDRAM corruption in the case
that a fully relocatable image has been loaded into SDRAM and is being
executed from SDRAM. x86 is being aligned with other architectures (ARM
and PPC in particlar) and will be using Cache-As-RAM to run a C
environment from Flash (or SRAM if you have some). early_board_init may
be needed to assist in the setup of Cache-As-RAM and the early C
environment
Linker needs to use the proper endian/bfd flags even when doing partial linking.
LDFLAGS_u-boot sets linker option which is called it when U-boot is built
(u-boot final).
LDFLAGS sets necessary option by partial linking (use in cmd_link_o_target).
CC: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
Before this commit, weak symbols were not overridden by non-weak symbols
found in archive libraries when linking with recent versions of
binutils. As stated in the System V ABI, "the link editor does not
extract archive members to resolve undefined weak symbols".
This commit changes all Makefiles to use partial linking (ld -r) instead
of creating library archives, which forces all symbols to participate in
linking, allowing non-weak symbols to override weak symbols as intended.
This approach is also used by Linux, from which the gmake function
cmd_link_o_target (defined in config.mk and used in all Makefiles) is
inspired.
The name of each former library archive is preserved except for
extensions which change from ".a" to ".o". This commit updates
references accordingly where needed, in particular in some linker
scripts.
This commit reveals board configurations that exclude some features but
include source files that depend these disabled features in the build,
resulting in undefined symbols. Known such cases include:
- disabling CMD_NET but not CMD_NFS;
- enabling CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT but not CONFIG_QE.
Signed-off-by: Sebastien Carlier <sebastien.carlier@gmail.com>
By now, the majority of architectures have working relocation
support, so the few remaining architectures have become exceptions.
To make this more obvious, we make working relocation now the default
case, and flag the remaining cases with CONFIG_NEEDS_MANUAL_RELOC.
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Tested-by: Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de>
Tested-by: Reinhard Meyer <u-boot@emk-elektronik.de>
CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_SIZE has always been just a bad workarond for not
being able to use "sizeof(struct global_data)" in assembler files.
Recent experience has shown that manual synchronization is not
reliable enough. This patch renames CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_SIZE into
GENERATED_GBL_DATA_SIZE which gets automatically generated by the
asm-offsets tool. In the result, all definitions of this value can be
deleted from the board config files. We have to make sure that all
files that reference such data include the new <asm-offsets.h> file.
No other changes have been done yet, but it is obvious that similar
changes / simplifications can be done for other, related macro
definitions as well.
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
The change is currently needed to be able to remove the board
configuration scripting from the top level Makefile and replace it by
a simple, table driven script.
Moving this configuration setting into the "CONFIG_*" name space is
also desirable because it is needed if we ever should move forward to
a Kconfig driven configuration system.
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
u-boot.bin can be loaded at any 4-byte aligned memory location and directly
'jumped' to using the 'go' command using the load address as the start
address. Doing so performs a 'warm boot' which skips memory initialisation
and other low-level initialisations, relocates U-Boot to upper memory and
starts U-Boot in RAM as per normal 'cold boot'
Provides a small speed increase and prepares for fully relocatable image.
Downside is the TEXT_BASE, bss, load address etc must ALL be aligned on a
a 4-byte boundary which is not such a terrible restriction as everything
is already 4-byte aligned anyway
By reserving space for the Global Data immediately below the stack during
assembly level initialisation, the C declaration of the static global data
can be removed, along with the 'RAM Bootstrap' function. This results in
cleaner code, and the ability to pass boot-up flags from assembler into C
Change to:
- reparam=3
- no-from-pointer
- no-stack-protector
- preferred-stack-boundary=2
- no-top-level-reorder
These options make the code a little smaller and faster
The header of recent Linux Kernels includes the size of the image, and
therefore is not needed to be passed to zboot. Still process the third
parameter (size of image) in the event that an older kernel is being loaded
This patch removes the completely unused CONFIG_SERIAL_SOFTWARE_FIFO
feature from U-Boot. It has only been implemented for PPC4xx and was not
used at all. So let's remove it and make the code smaller and cleaner.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Acked-by: Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>
Graeme Russ
Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
Sebastien Carlier
Wolfgang Denk
Stefan Roese
Heiko Schocher