[U-Boot-Users] U-Boot-NG ?

[Carsten Schlote <schlote@vahanus.net>]

Hi Sascha,

Am Montag, den 02.07.2007, 21:26 +0200 schrieb Sascha Hauer:

> I'm too using ld-2.17:
> GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.17.50.20070426
Here (debian/etch):
GNU ld version 2.17 Debian GNU/Linux

Maybe one of your patch levels introduced CONSTANT as glue to support
different pagesizes with the same linker script?

> gcc version is 4.1.2.
Here:
gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)

> with 'ld --verbose'. Maybe a diff between yours and the one used in
> U-Boot can give some light?

> ld --verbose 
 ...
  . = ALIGN (0x1000) - ((0x1000 - .) & (0x1000 - 1)); . =
DATA_SEGMENT_ALIGN (0x1000, 0x1000);
 ...

This is the line causing the problem. As you can see, my ld uses
hardwired constants, not CONSTANT(...). 

As CONSTANT() is not documented on the sourceware.org/binutils pages I
presume it's a non-mainstream extension. 

Maybe we can distinguish between ia64 and i386 targets and set defines
appropriately in u-boot.lds.h? Or use only mainstream LD builtins for
our links scripts.

Regards
  Carsten