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>
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.
- 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
- 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
Trent Piepho
Selvamuthukumar
Wolfgang Denk
Wolfgang Denk
wdenk