On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Kim Phillips wrote:
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 18:29:54 -0500
This addresses the problem described here:
http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2008-December/045029.html
This changes the link scripts of several of the mpcXXX CPUs to include everything from '.rodata'. Without this, using a recent powerpc-linux-gnu toolchain (e.g. from CodeSourcery) to build U-Boot fails, often producing a multi-GB binary file.
See my patch as to why ".rodata*" is non-optimal.
so, what's the status of this patch? I've seen this fail on 83xx. Most of these types of patches that fix the newer gcc's behaviour have been dropped, one of which even did sorting on name and alignment:
http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg03193.html
Do I need to make one for 83xx and apply it myself?
Wolfgang rejected mine because he wanted a patch that fixed every single board in one shot. I didn't feel like patching a hundred other linker scripts I knew nothing about.