On Sunday 05 February 2012 17:07:41 Graeme Russ wrote:
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
On Saturday 04 February 2012 22:02:45 Troy Kisky wrote:
--- /dev/null +++ b/u-boot-common.lds
. = ALIGN(4);__u_boot_cmd_start = .;.u_boot_cmd : {KEEP(*(.u_boot_cmd))}__u_boot_cmd_end = .;rather than storing this in the top level dir, i'd suggest going the linux route and add a include/asm-generic/u-boot.lds.h header. then we can migrate
Except it's not a 'header' :)
what Troy has posted isn't a header, but what i'm suggesting is. Linux's vmlinux.lds.h does things like: #define DISCARDS \ /DISCARDS/ : { \ EXIT_TEXT \ *(.discard) \ }
and then the arch linker scripts just use: DISCARDS
people over time and piece by piece without having to worry about breaking everyone at once ...
Here we go again ;) - Queue the 'what incentive will maintainers have to migrate to the common case' discussion...
it isn't just that. i don't think a single u-boot.lds for every arch is feasible. the kernel method allows all the common pieces to be in a common header, and then the arches to expand the specific pieces in the specific order. -mike