With recent toolchain versions, some boards would not build because
or errors like this one (here for ocotea board when building with
ELDK 4.2 beta):
ppc_4xx-ld: section .bootpg [fffff000 -> fffff23b] overlaps section .bss [fffee900 -> fffff8ab]
For many boards, the .bss section is big enough that it wraps around
at the end of the address space (0xFFFFFFFF), so the problem will not
be visible unless you use a 64 bit tool chain for development. On
some boards however, changes to the code size (due to different
optimizations) we bail out with section overlaps like above.
The fix is to add the NOLOAD attribute to the .bss and .sbss
sections, telling the linker that .bss does not consume any space in
the image.
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Modifications are based on the linux kernel approach and
support two use cases:
1) Add O= to the make command line
'make O=/tmp/build all'
2) Set environement variable BUILD_DIR to point to the desired location
'export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build'
'make'
The second approach can also be used with a MAKEALL script
'export BUILD_DIR=/tmp/build'
'./MAKEALL'
Command line 'O=' setting overrides BUILD_DIR environent variable.
When none of the above methods is used the local build is performed and
the object files are placed in the source directory.
* Patches by Michael Bendzick, 30 Aug 2004:
- Configure omap1510inn board to use drivers/cfi_flash.c
- Make drivers/cfi_flash.c protect environment and redundant
environment.
* Patch by Steven Scholz, 23 Jun 2004:
- Add script (tools/img2brec.sh) to programm U-Boot into
(Synch)Flash using the Bootstrap Mode of the MC9328MX1/L
attempting to switch on USB on SX1 board.
* Patch by Josef Wagner, 18 Mar 2004:
- Add support for MicroSys XM250 board (PXA255)
- Add support for MicroSys PM828 board (MPC8280)
- Add support for 32 MB Flash on PM825/826
- new SDRAM refresh rate for PM825/PM826
- added support for MicroSys PM520 (MPC5200)
- replaced Query by Identify command in CPU86/flash.c
to support 28F160F3B
* Fix wrap around problem with udelay() on ARM920T
* Add support for Macronix flash on TRAB board
Wolfgang Denk