The efi linker script includes sections needed for the dynamic linker. However, in our EFI application environment we don't have a dynamic linker.
So let's remove them. That way we save on 4k padding and reduce the file size of the hello world efi binary from ~4k to ~1k.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf agraf@suse.de --- arch/arm/lib/elf_arm_efi.lds | 11 ++++------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/elf_arm_efi.lds b/arch/arm/lib/elf_arm_efi.lds index 59f66a1d4a..15c9c5c672 100644 --- a/arch/arm/lib/elf_arm_efi.lds +++ b/arch/arm/lib/elf_arm_efi.lds @@ -55,16 +55,13 @@ SECTIONS .rel.data : { *(.rel.data) *(.rel.data*) } _data_size = . - _etext;
- . = ALIGN(4096); - .dynsym : { *(.dynsym) } - . = ALIGN(4096); - .dynstr : { *(.dynstr) } - . = ALIGN(4096); - .note.gnu.build-id : { *(.note.gnu.build-id) } /DISCARD/ : { *(.rel.reloc) *(.eh_frame) *(.note.GNU-stack) + *(.dynsym) + *(.dynstr) + *(.note.gnu.build-id) + *(.comment) } - .comment 0 : { *(.comment) } }