Recent GCC (4.4+) performs out-of-line epilogues in some cases, when
optimizing for size. It causes a link error for _restgpr_30_x (and similar)
if libgcc is not linked.
It actually increases size with very small binaries, due to the fixed size
of the out-of-line code, and not having any functions that actually need to
restore more than 2 or 3 registers. But I don't see a way to turn it off,
other than asking GCC to optimize for speed -- which may also increase
size for some boards.
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Acked-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
Acked-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Recent GCC (4.4+) performs out-of-line epilogues in some cases, when
optimizing for size. It causes a link error for _restgpr_30_x (and similar)
if libgcc is not linked.
It actually increases size with very small binaries, due to the fixed size
of the out-of-line code, and not having any functions that actually need to
restore more than 2 or 3 registers. But I don't see a way to turn it off,
other than asking GCC to optimize for speed -- which may also increase
size for some boards.
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Acked-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
Acked-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
This commit adapts 4xx boards for partial linking with --gc-sections.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Cc: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Cc: Tirumala Marri <tmarri@apm.com>
Cc: David Updegraff <dave@cray.com>
Cc: Matthias Fuchs <matthias.fuchs@esd-electronics.com>
Cc: Dirk Eibach <eibach@gdsys.de>
Cc: Larry Johnson <lrj@acm.org>
Cc: Peter De Schrijver <p2@mind.be>
Cc: Niklaus Giger <niklaus.giger@netstal.com>
Cc: Daniel Poirot <dan.poirot@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
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>
As discussed on the list, move "arch/ppc" to "arch/powerpc" to
better match the Linux directory structure.
Please note that this patch also changes the "ppc" target in
MAKEALL to "powerpc" to match this new infrastructure. But "ppc"
is kept as an alias for now, to not break compatibility with
scripts using this name.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Acked-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Acked-by: Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>
Acked-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
Cc: Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com>
Cc: Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de>
Commit f62fb99941 fixed handling of all rodata sections by using a
wildcard combined with calls to ld's builtin functions SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT()
and SORT_BY_NAME(). Unfortunately these functions were only
introduced with biunutils version 2.16, so the modification broke
building with all tool chains using older binutils.
This patch makes it work again. This is done by omitting the use of
these functions for such old tool chains. This will result in
slightly larger target binaries, as the rodata sections are no longer
in optimal order alignment-wise which reauls in unused gaps, but the
effect was found to be insignificant - especially compared to the fact
that you cannot build U-Boot at all in the current state.
As ld seems to have no support for conditionals we run the linker
script through the C preprocessor which can be easily used to remove
the unwanted function calls.
Note that the C preprocessor must be run with the "-ansi" (or a
"-std=") option to make sure all the system-specific predefined
macros outside the reserved namespace are suppressed. Otherise, cpp
might for example substitute "powerpc" to "1", thus corrupting for
example "OUTPUT_ARCH(powerpc)" etc.
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
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>
UNDEF_SYM is a shell variable in the main Makefile used to force the
linker to add all u-boot commands to the final image. It has no use here.
Signed-off-by: Kenneth Johansson <kenneth@southpole.se>
This patch changes the kilauea and kilauea_nand (for NAND booting)
board port to not use a board specific DDR2 init routine anymore. Now
the common code from cpu/ppc4xx is used.
Thanks to Grant Erickson for all his basic work on this 405EX early
bootup.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@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>
This patch adds NAND booting support for the AMCC 405EX(r) eval boards.
Again, only one image supports both targets.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Scott Wood
Wolfgang Denk
Stefan Roese
Peter Tyser
Trent Piepho
Selvamuthukumar
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
Kenneth Johansson