Hi Mike, On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Sunday 05 February 2012 22:43:33 Graeme Russ wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> > 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. >> >> I can't say I'm a fan of the 'common bits' approach - It really does reduce >> the readability of the linker script IMHO. It took me long enough to deal >> with the fact that the lds file is pre-processed for TEXT_BASE ;) > > yes, it does make the linker scripts a bit more opaque, but since each arch is > doing something unique, it's fairly hard to merge them into a single file. > the > Linux approach represents what we can do in the real world -- get beyond > board-specific linker scripts and to one linker script per arch. then the > vmlinux.lds.h merges a lot of the stuff that can be shared between arches. > > i've unified all the board/SoC linker scripts for Blackfin and now there is > just > one -- arch/blackfin/cpu/u-boot.lds.
Ditto for x86 Maybe we should wait until all the arches have unified linker scripts before looking at a global script (parallels with 'skip relocation')? Regards, Graeme _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
