[U-Boot] PowerPC -mrelocatable

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Tuesday 08 September 2009 12:16:13 Peter Tyser wrote:
> I did some debug on gcc 3.4.3/binutils2.3.4/glibc2.15 which was a known
> non-working setup on an MPC8548-based board.  I'm 98% sure the the
> reason it fails because it doesn't properly generate .fixup sections.
> No .fixup sections are present in any of the compiled objects or u-boot.
> This results in the link script variable '__fixup_entries' equalling 0,
> so no relocation fixups are performed on bootup (eg see line 943 in
> cpu/mpc85xx/start.S).
> 
> It looks like this was a gcc bug that has been fixed:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-cvs/2004-12/msg00057.html
> 
> ...
> 
> My vote would be to find out which version of gcc contains the
> relocation bug and spit out an error if gcc < than that version is used.
> We could also try and get fancy and dynamically turn on/off relocation
> support at compile time based on gcc's version if other's wanted to
> maintain support for older compilers.  These changes would only be for
> ppc at this point btw.

or run readelf on the objects that are known to not generate fixup stuff and 
error out if they're missing in the objects ?
-mike
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