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.
Old, obsolete and duplicated code was cleaned up and replace by the
new partitioning method. There are two possible approaches now:
* define a single, static partition
* use mtdparts command line option and dynamic partitioning
Default is static partitioning.
ARM memory layout fixes: the abort-stack is now set up in the
correct RAM area, and the BSS is zeroed out as it should be.
Furthermore, the magic variables 'armboot_end' and 'armboot_end_data'
of the linker scripts are replaced by '__bss_start' and '_end',
resp., which is a further step to eliminate unnecessary differences
between the implementation of the CPU architectures.
- fix spelling errors
- set GD_FLG_DEVINIT flag only after device function pointers
are valid
- Allow CFG_ALT_MEMTEST on systems where address zero isn't
writeable
- enable 3.rd UART (ST-UART) on PXA(XScale) CPUs
- trigger watchdog while waiting in serial driver
- 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 IDMA example code (tested on 8260 only)
* Add support for Purple Board (MIPS64 5Kc)
* Add support for MIPS64 5Kc CPUs
* Fix missing setting of "loadaddr" and "bootfile" on ARM and MIPS
* Patch by Denis Peter, 04 Apr 2003:
- update MIP405-4 board
* Patches by Denis Peter, 03 April 2003:
- fix PCI IRQs on MPL boards
- fix two more un-relocated pointer problems
* Fix behaviour of "run" command:
- print error message iv variable does not exist
- terminate processing of arguments in case of error
* Patches by Peter Figuli, 10 Mar 2003
- Add support for BTUART on PXA platform
- Add support for WEP EP250 (PXA) board
* Fix flash problems on INCA-IP; add tool to allow bruning images to
flash using a BDI2000
* Implement fix for I2C Edge Conditions problem for all boards that
use the bit-banging driver (common/soft_i2c.c)
* Add patches by Robert Schwebel, 31 Mar 2003:
- csb226 board: bring in sync with innokom/memsetup.S
- csb226 board: fix MDREFR handling
- misc doc fixes / extensions
- innokom board: cleanup, MDREFR fix in memsetup.S, config update
- add BOOT_PROGRESS to armlinux.c
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:
the HSYNC/VSYNC. Requires new CPLD code (Version 101 for Rev. 100
boards, version 153 for Rev. 200 boards).
* Patch by Vladimir Gurevich, 12 Mar 2003:
Fix relocation problem of statically initialized string pointers
in common/cmd_pci.c
* Patch by Kai-Uwe Blöm, 12 Mar 2003:
Cleanup & bug fixes for JFFS2 code:
- the memory mangement was broken. It caused havoc on malloc by
writing beyond the block boundaries.
- the length calculation for files was wrong, sometimes resulting
in short file reads.
- data copying now optionally takes fragment version numbers into
account, to avoid copying from older data.
See doc/README.JFFS2 for details.
- 16/32 MB and 50/80 MHz support with auto-detection for IP860
- ETH05 and BEDBUG support for CU824
- added support for MicroSys CPC45
- new BOOTROM/FLASH0 and DOC base for PM826
* Patch by Robert Schwebel, 12 Mar 2003:
Fix the chpart command on innokom board
* Name cleanup:
mv include/asm-i386/ppcboot-i386.h include/asm-i386/u-boot-i386.h
s/PPCBoot/U-Boot/ in some files
s/pImage/uImage/ in some files
* Patch by Detlev Zundel, 15 Jan 2003:
Fix '' command line quoting
* Patch by The LEOX team, 19 Jan 2003:
- add support for the ELPT860 board
- add support for Dallas ds164x RTC
- fix bug in BOOTP code (must use NetCopyIP)
- update of CSB226 port
- clear BSS segment on XScale
- added support for i2c_init_board() function
- update to the Innokom plattform
* Extend support for redundand environments for configurations where
environment size < sector size
- Add support for Innokom board
- Don't complain if "install" fails
- README cleanup (remove duplicated lines)
- Update PXA header files
* Add documentation for existing POST code (doc/README.POST)
* Patch by Laudney Ren, 15 Jan 2003:
Fix handling of redundand environment in "tools/envcrc.c"
* Patch by Detlev Zundel, 28 Feb 2003:
Add bedbug support for 824x systems
* Add support for 16 MB flash configuration of TRAB board
* Patch by Erwin Rol, 27 Feb 2003:
Add support for RTEMS
* Add image information to README
* Fix dual PCMCIA slot support (when running with just one
slot populated)
* Add VFD type detection to trab board
* extend drivers/cs8900.c driver to synchronize ethaddr environment
variable with value in the EEPROM
Wolfgang Denk
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
Wolfgang Denk
Marian Balakowicz
Wolfgang Denk
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