From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Brian Gerst <bgerst@quark.didntduck.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove last reference to LDFLAGS_BLOB
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:59:27 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041020175927.GE14780@logos.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4175C6E2.1080201@quark.didntduck.org>
No, do not remove that initramfs_data.S section!
People with older binutils (like me) rely on it.
Make it obsolete on 2.7.x.
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 10:01:06PM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote:
> Nothing uses LDFLAGS_BLOB anymore, now that the arm binutils are fixed.
>
> --
> Brian Gerst
> diff -urN linux-2.6.9-bk/arch/m32r/Makefile linux/arch/m32r/Makefile
> --- linux-2.6.9-bk/arch/m32r/Makefile 2004-10-18 20:34:14.000000000 -0400
> +++ linux/arch/m32r/Makefile 2004-10-19 17:40:55.614157644 -0400
> @@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
> LDFLAGS :=
> OBJCOPYFLAGS := -O binary -R .note -R .comment -S
> LDFLAGS_vmlinux := -e startup_32
> -LDFLAGS_BLOB := --format binary --oformat elf32-m32r
>
> CFLAGS += -pipe -fno-schedule-insns
> CFLAGS_KERNEL += -mmodel=medium
> diff -urN linux-2.6.9-bk/usr/initramfs_data.S linux/usr/initramfs_data.S
> --- linux-2.6.9-bk/usr/initramfs_data.S 2003-12-17 21:59:42.000000000 -0500
> +++ linux/usr/initramfs_data.S 2004-10-19 17:41:16.191659582 -0400
> @@ -1,28 +1,6 @@
> /*
> initramfs_data includes the compressed binary that is the
> filesystem used for early user space.
> - Note: Older versions of "as" (prior to binutils 2.11.90.0.23
> - released on 2001-07-14) dit not support .incbin.
> - If you are forced to use older binutils than that then the
> - following trick can be applied to create the resulting binary:
> -
> -
> - ld -m elf_i386 --format binary --oformat elf32-i386 -r \
> - -T initramfs_data.scr initramfs_data.cpio.gz -o initramfs_data.o
> - ld -m elf_i386 -r -o built-in.o initramfs_data.o
> -
> - initramfs_data.scr looks like this:
> -SECTIONS
> -{
> - .init.ramfs : { *(.data) }
> -}
> -
> - The above example is for i386 - the parameters vary from architectures.
> - Eventually look up LDFLAGS_BLOB in an older version of the
> - arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile to see the flags used before .incbin was introduced.
> -
> - Using .incbin has the advantage over ld that the correct flags are set
> - in the ELF header, as required by certain architectures.
> */
>
> .section .init.ramfs,"a"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-21 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-20 2:01 [PATCH] Remove last reference to LDFLAGS_BLOB Brian Gerst
2004-10-20 8:05 ` Russell King
2004-10-20 17:59 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2004-10-30 23:29 ` Sam Ravnborg
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