Re: [PATCH v2] armv8: u-boot-spl.lds: Place binman symbols at end of binary

[Peng Fan <peng.fan@oss.nxp.com>]

Hi Jonas,
On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 05:20:54PM +0000, Jonas Karlman wrote:
>It can be useful in xPL to access symbols from binman, such as the
>offset/position and size of a binman entry.

Would you please disclose more details? What it will be used for?

Thanks,
Peng

>
>Place these binman symbols together at the end of the xPL binary for
>ARMv8, similar to ARM and RISC-V.
>
>Signed-off-by: Jonas Karlman <jonas@kwiboo.se>
>---
>v2: Rebase on master after "arm: Update linker scripts to ensure
>    appended device tree is aligned".
>---
> arch/arm/cpu/armv8/u-boot-spl.lds | 8 ++++++++
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
>diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/u-boot-spl.lds b/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/u-boot-spl.lds
>index d9963846c4f4..b732133ce76d 100644
>--- a/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/u-boot-spl.lds
>+++ b/arch/arm/cpu/armv8/u-boot-spl.lds
>@@ -55,6 +55,14 @@ SECTIONS
> 		. = ALIGN(8);
> 	} >.sram
> 
>+	.binman_sym_table : {
>+		. = ALIGN(8);
>+		__binman_sym_start = .;
>+		KEEP(*(SORT(.binman_sym*)));
>+		__binman_sym_end = .;
>+		. = ALIGN(8);
>+	} > .sram
>+
> 	__image_copy_end = .;
> 	_end = .;
> 	_image_binary_end = .;
>-- 
>2.52.0
>