[U-Boot] [PATCH v3] Switch from archive libraries to partial linking

Mike Frysinger
2010-11-19T08:10:32Z

On Friday, November 19, 2010 02:50:37 Sebastien Carlier wrote:
> It looks like the purpose is to optimally fill a flash sector with
> definitions, is this accurate? Why is this needed? Beside the obvious
> (reset vectors, startup code), is there any reason to prefer any given
> definition to go into the sector being filled?

i havent looked at this particular case, but often it's because we need to
carve out a sector for an embedded env and the linker script syntax isnt good
enough to say "start filling this section and once it's filled, start filling
this other one". that'd be awesome.
-mike
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