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

Wolfgang Denk
2009-01-31T20:23:28Z

Dear "Matthew L. Creech",

In message <5ee96a840901071529q6eb7d7fblfeb8e3097305b2e0@mail.gmail.com> you 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.

If I understand correctly, this problem affects not only the Freescale
processors, but all ppc - then we should fix it for all ppc.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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