Dear Kumar Gala,
In message 1249997451-21265-1-git-send-email-galak@kernel.crashing.org you wrote:
There are really no differences between all the 85xx linker scripts so we can just move to a single common one. Board code is still able to override the common one if need be.
Are you sure there are no differences?
--- board/atum8548/u-boot.lds 2009-07-28 20:27:27.549470982 +0200 +++ board/freescale/mpc8536ds/u-boot.lds 2009-07-28 20:27:27.678455216 +0200 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ /* - * Copyright 2007 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. + * Copyright 2008 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. * * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this * project. @@ -23,18 +23,14 @@ OUTPUT_ARCH(powerpc) /* Do we need any of these for elf? __DYNAMIC = 0; */ -SECTIONS -{ - .resetvec 0xFFFFFFFC : +PHDRS { - *(.resetvec) - } = 0xffff + text PT_LOAD; + bss PT_LOAD; +}
- .bootpg 0xFFFFF000 : +SECTIONS { - cpu/mpc85xx/start.o (.bootpg) - } = 0xffff - /* Read-only sections, merged into text segment: */ . = + SIZEOF_HEADERS; .interp : { *(.interp) } @@ -61,26 +57,17 @@ .plt : { *(.plt) } .text : { - cpu/mpc85xx/start.o (.text) - cpu/mpc85xx/traps.o (.text) - cpu/mpc85xx/interrupts.o (.text) - cpu/mpc85xx/cpu_init.o (.text) - cpu/mpc85xx/cpu.o (.text) - cpu/mpc85xx/speed.o (.text) - lib_generic/crc32.o (.text) - lib_ppc/extable.o (.text) - lib_generic/zlib.o (.text) *(.text) *(.fixup) *(.got1) - } + } :text _etext = .; PROVIDE (etext = .); .rodata : { *(.eh_frame) *(SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT(SORT_BY_NAME(.rodata*))) - } + } :text .fini : { *(.fini) } =0 .ctors : { *(.ctors) } .dtors : { *(.dtors) } @@ -129,6 +116,18 @@ . = ALIGN(256); __init_end = .;
+ .bootpg ADDR(.text) + 0x7f000 : + { + cpu/mpc85xx/start.o (.bootpg) + } :text = 0xffff + + .resetvec ADDR(.text) + 0x7fffc : + { + *(.resetvec) + } :text = 0xffff + + . = ADDR(.text) + 0x80000; + __bss_start = .; .bss (NOLOAD) : { @@ -136,8 +135,9 @@ *(.dynbss) *(.bss) *(COMMON) + } :bss + . = ALIGN(4); - } _end = . ; PROVIDE (end = .); }
???
Also, you're compressing a lot of different Copyrights into a single "Copyright 2007-2009 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.".
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk