Re: [U-Boot] Instructions in TEXT section can not load data from other section

Hi, everyone.

I have got a problem when I porting U-BOOT to my board

with MPC8247. My configuration file is based on the MPC8260ADS_config.

The problem is : The instruction in TEXT section can not load data in

other (DATA) sections. It seems there is a relocation to the data section .

For example: If I use

for (init_fnc_ptr = init_sequence; *init_fnc_ptr; ++init_fnc_ptr) {
    if ((*init_fnc_ptr) () != 0) {
        hang ();
    }
}

I can't jump to functions in init_sequence[] ;

If I called functions such as get_clocks() in board_init_f , it works fine.

So the code in board_init_f can not load address in init_sequence[] , because

init_sequence[] is out of TEXT section.

The same thing happens with iop_conf_tab[][], and strings used by "puts".

Anyone there has the same problem? Or know the point? Pls help!

Yes, that is a relocation problem. Do you compile with -mrelocatable? If so, you might have a broken toolchain that don't produce .fixups

jocke