Hi Albert,

On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:57:37 +0100, Albert ARIBAUD albert.u.boot@aribaud.net wrote:

Hi again Rajeshwari,

On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 20:35:18 +0100, Albert ARIBAUD albert.u.boot@aribaud.net wrote:

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Hi Rajeshwari,

On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 13:24:28 +0530, Rajeshwari Birje rajeshwari.birje@gmail.com wrote:

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Hi All,

I have tried booting SMDK5250 on the latest U-boot-Samsung branch, It builds fine but does not boot. Observation: If revert the following patch it works fine: commit 47ed5dd031d7d2c587e6afd386e79ccec1a1b7f7 Author: Albert ARIBAUD albert.u.boot@aribaud.net Date: Thu Nov 7 14:21:46 2013 +0100

arm: keep all sections in ELF file

Current LDS files /DISCARD/ a lot of sections when linking ELF
files, causing diagnostic tools such as readelf or objdump to
produce partial output. Keep all section at link stage, filter
only at objcopy time so that .bin remains minimal.

Signed-off-by: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
Reviewed-by: Benoît Thébaudeau <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com>

Kindly do let me know if any changes to be made.

Can you try a debug build?

Meanwhile, I have done a test branch on the u-boot-arm repo that you can use to perform tests. The branch is 'test-smdk5250-full-ELF'. You should try progressively:

• test-smdk5250-full-ELF^^^^ -- this is the commit before the ELF patch
• test-smdk5250-full-ELF^^^ -- this limits sections that objcopy uses
• test-smdk5250-full-ELF^^ -- this adds harmless sections to the ELF
• test-smdk5250-full-ELF^ -- this moves .hash out of the .bin
• test-smdk5250-full-ELF -- this moves .got.plt out of the .bin

Please let me know which branch works and which does not.

Amicalement,

Thanks to Rajeshwari's help, I was able to pinpoint an issue in the "full ELF" commit which affects at least Exynos boards, in that they won't boot if the .hash and .got.plt sections aren't in the binary, although I haven't found out why so far, since these sections are not referred to AFAICT.

I will post a bugfix in the coming hours, which adds back .hash and .got.plt into the binary; people with Exynos-based boards which cannot boot with current ARM ToT please test this patch and report failure or add your Tested-By: accordingly. Thanks in advance!

Amicalement,