[U-Boot] [PATCH] ARM: Fix __bss_start and __bss_end in linker scripts

[Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>]

Hi Tom,

On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:52:08 -0700, Tom Warren <TWarren@nvidia.com>
wrote:

> Albert,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stephen Warren [mailto:swarren at wwwdotorg.org]
> > Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 8:59 AM
> > To: Tom Rini
> > Cc: Albert ARIBAUD; Scott Wood; u-boot at lists.denx.de;
> > Stephen at theia.denx.de; Tom Warren; Simon Glass; Allen Martin
> > Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] ARM: Fix __bss_start and __bss_end in linker
> > scripts
> 
> I just fetched & merged TOT u-boot-arm (getting ready for a PR from u-boot-tegra -> u-boot-arm), and did a test build of all Tegra boards.
> 
> I get the following linker (ld) error on all builds due to this commit (abbecf4c8,  ARM: Fix __bss_start and __bss_end in linker scripts):
> 
>  arm-linux-gnueabi-ld.bfd:u-boot.lds:44: syntax error
> 
> This is pointing to the 'HIDDEN(__bss_base = .);' lines added in this change (in the generated u-boot.lds in the root dir).
> 
> I'm seeing this with both gcc 4.4.1/ld 2.19.51  and gcc 4.6.2/ld 2.22 tools.
> 
> What compiler/binutils did you use to build/test this?

This has been detected already, and one of the reasons why Tom and I
decided to roll back ARM. Normally, you should have u-boot-arm/master =
u-boot-arm/master = dd2445ec1b839a5ca61ff8438a5b7aebb21b7986.

> Tom

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.