PATCH: Use .incbin to incorporate binary files.

["H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>]

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The Linux binutils 2.11.90.0.23 released on 2001-07-14 introduced
a new feature, .incbin, which allows you to include a set of binary
data at a given point in the assembly. It is better than

# ld -r --format binary --oformat ...

since it will set appropriate bits in the ELF header. Here is a patch
against 2.5.70 to use .incbin.


H.J.

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--- linux/usr/Makefile.binary	Mon Mar 24 14:00:45 2003
+++ linux/usr/Makefile	Wed Jun 11 15:44:23 2003
@@ -5,11 +5,9 @@ host-progs  := gen_init_cpio
 
 clean-files := initramfs_data.cpio.gz
 
-LDFLAGS_initramfs_data.o := $(LDFLAGS_BLOB) -r -T
-
-$(obj)/initramfs_data.o: $(src)/initramfs_data.scr \
-			 $(obj)/initramfs_data.cpio.gz FORCE
-	$(call if_changed,ld)
+$(src)/initramfs_data.S: $(obj)/initramfs_data.cpio.gz
+	echo "	.section .init.ramfs,\"a\"" > $(src)/initramfs_data.S
+	echo ".incbin \"usr/initramfs_data.cpio.gz\"" >> $(src)/initramfs_data.S
 
 # initramfs-y are the programs which will be copied into the CPIO
 # archive. Currently, the filenames are hardcoded in gen_init_cpio,
--- linux/usr/initramfs_data.scr.binary	Mon Mar 24 14:00:11 2003
+++ linux/usr/initramfs_data.scr	Wed Jun 11 15:44:32 2003
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-SECTIONS
-{
-	.init.ramfs : { *(.data) }
-}