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

[Reinhard Meyer <u-boot@emk-elektronik.de>]

Dear Albert,
> 
> On 2010-11-19 13:38:00, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
>> Le 19/11/2010 13:33, Sebastien Carlier a ?crit :
>>> Is it not possible to tell the linker to place a made-up 32 kB symbol
>>> within the text section at address 0x40008000?  I am not familiar enough
>>> with ld to tell whether there are restrictions for setting the absolute
>>> address of a symbol that would disallow it in this case.
>> You can force a symbol to reside at a given offset, but that will
>> not make the linker "skip" that symbol when filling the output
>> section, if that's what you meant.
> 
> Yes, I was hoping the linker would first allocate space for
> absolute-address symbols and then fill the gaps with the remaining
> symbols in whatever order.
> 
>> If you read up the binutils doc, you'll see that ld fills output
>> sections based on a "location pointer" (the "dot") that simply moves
>> on with each input section added -- no skipping, and no jumping from
>> one region to another either.
> 
> I see, thank you for pointing this out.  This specific behavior actually
> seems quite essential to the interpretation of linker scripts, so there
> is probably no hope for any change there.

Have you tried something in the line of:

/* Memory Definitions */

MEMORY
{
  CODE (rx) : ORIGIN = 0x00000000, LENGTH = 0x0007E000
  DATA (rw) : ORIGIN = 0x40000000, LENGTH = 0x00007A00
  ENET (rw) : ORIGIN = 0x7FE00000, LENGTH = 0x00004000
}


/* Section Definitions */

SECTIONS
{

  /* first section is .text which is used for code */

  .text :
  {
    *startup2300.o (.text)		/* Startup code */
	*basicio.o (.text)			/* basic I/O */
    *(.text)					/* remaining code */

    *(.glue_7t) *(.glue_7)

  } >CODE =0

  . = ALIGN(4);

...

*maybe* one can define several areas for CODE in the MEMORY section?

Best Regards,
Reinhard