[U-Boot] [PATCH] Fix Freescale link scripts for newer GCCs

Kim Phillips
2009-01-22T01:11:24Z

On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 18:29:54 -0500
"Matthew L. Creech" <mlcreech@gmail.com> wrote:

> This addresses the problem described here:
>
> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2008-December/045029.html
>
> This changes the link scripts of several of the mpcXXX CPUs to include
> everything from '.rodata'. Without this, using a recent
> powerpc-linux-gnu toolchain (e.g. from CodeSourcery) to build U-Boot
> fails, often producing a multi-GB binary file.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Creech <mlcreech@gmail.com>
> ---

so, what's the status of this patch? I've seen this fail on 83xx.
Most of these types of patches that fix the newer gcc's behaviour have
been dropped, one of which even did sorting on name and alignment:

http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot at lists.denx.de/msg03193.html

Do I need to make one for 83xx and apply it myself?

Kim