Hi Marek, On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Marek Vasut <ma...@denx.de> wrote: > This patch adds support for linker-generated array. These arrays > are a generalization of the U-Boot command declaration approach. > > Basically, the idea is to generate an array, where elements of the > array are statically initialized at compile time and each element > is declared separatelly at different place. Such array is assembled > together into continuous piece of memory by linker and a pointer to > it's first entry can then be retrieved via accessor. > > The actual implementation relies on placing any variable that is to > represent an element of LG-array into particular subsection of the > .u_boot_list linker section . The subsection is determined by user > options. Once compiled, it is possible to dump all symbols placed > in .u_boot_list section and the subsections in which they should be > and generate appropriate bounds for each requested subsection of the > .u_boot_list section. Each such subsection thus contains __start and > __end entries at the begining and end respecitively. > > This allows for simple run-time traversing of the array, since the > symbols are properly defined. > > Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <ma...@denx.de> > Cc: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershber...@gmail.com> > Cc: Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> > ---
Tested-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershber...@ni.com> Acked-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershber...@ni.com> _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
