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. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
