[U-Boot] [PATCH] arm: Handle .gnu.hash section in ldscripts

Richard Biener
2014-03-03T08:41:22Z

On Sun, 2 Mar 2014, Andreas F?rber wrote:

> Am 02.03.2014 21:57, schrieb Andreas F?rber:
> > Hi Albert,
> >
> > Am 02.03.2014 20:15, schrieb Albert ARIBAUD:
> >> Hi Andreas,
> >>
> >> On Sun, 02 Mar 2014 18:57:14 +0100, Andreas F?rber <afaerber@suse.de>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Albert,
> >>>
> >>> Am 22.02.2014 14:27, schrieb Albert ARIBAUD:
> >>>> On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:39:07 +0100, Albert ARIBAUD
> >>>> <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Can you point me to the toolchain you are using, and if you are not
> >>>>> building mainline code, can you make this code available to me somehow?
> > [...]
> >>> Our latest GCC 4.8.2 can be found here:
> >>> https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory:ARM/gcc48
> >>>
> >>> Matching binutils 2.24 are here:
> >>> https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory:ARM/binutils
> >>>
> >>> Our latest U-Boot tarball and patches:
> >>> https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Base:System/u-boot
> >>> Build logs can be found in the u-boot-* packages in the same project,
> >>> with underscores stripped, e.g.:
> >>> https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Base:System/u-boot-am335xevm
> >>
> >> Thanks for your reply. Apparently, the problem does not appear for the
> >> boards in mainline U-Boot which I listed above with the source code
> >> from our v2014.01 tag and using gcc 4.8.1 from Linaro. I can install
> >> 4.8.2, but meanwhile, can you try to build v2014.01 for these boards
> >> with your setup?
> >>
> >> am335x_evm colibri_t20_iris highbank mx53loco omap3_beagle
> >> omap4_panda paz00 rpi_b
> >
> > I have commented out the patch in:
> > https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:a_faerber:branches:Base:System
> >
> > While there are apparently frequent rebuilds scheduled ATM, it seemed
> > like the colibri_t20_iris config intermittently built OK without it.
> > Maybe some gcc 4.8 stable branch update [1] resolved it ... will keep an
> > eye on the build status to confirm. If everything builds, I'm happy.
>
> Nah, still fails without the patch:
>
> [ 178s] gcc -E -g -Os -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections
> -fno-common -ffixed-r9 -msoft-float -D__KERNEL__
> -DCONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE=0x0010E000
> -I/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/u-boot-2014.01/include
> -I/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/u-boot-2014.01/arch/arm/include
> -fno-builtin -ffreestanding -nostdinc -isystem
> /usr/lib/gcc/armv7hl-suse-linux-gnueabi/4.8/include -pipe -DCONFIG_ARM
> -D__ARM__ -marm -mno-thumb-interwork -mabi=aapcs-linux
> -mword-relocations -march=armv7-a -include
> /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/u-boot-2014.01/include/u-boot/u-boot.lds.h
> -DCPUDIR=arch/arm/cpu/armv7 -ansi -D__ASSEMBLY__ -P -
> </home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/u-boot-2014.01/arch/arm/cpu/u-boot.lds
> >u-boot.lds
> [ 178s] cd /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/u-boot-2014.01 && ld.bfd -pie
> -T u-boot.lds --gc-sections -Bstatic -Ttext 0x0010E000
^^^^^^^^^^^^

> arch/arm/cpu/armv7/start.o --start-group arch/arm/cpu/armv7/built-in.o
> arch/arm/cpu/armv7/tegra20/built-in.o arch/arm/cpu/built-in.o
> arch/arm/lib/built-in.o board/toradex/colibri_t20_iris/built-in.o
> common/built-in.o disk/built-in.o drivers/built-in.o
> drivers/dma/built-in.o drivers/gpio/built-in.o drivers/i2c/built-in.o
> drivers/input/built-in.o drivers/mmc/built-in.o drivers/mtd/built-in.o
> drivers/mtd/nand/built-in.o drivers/mtd/onenand/built-in.o
> drivers/mtd/spi/built-in.o drivers/net/built-in.o
> drivers/net/phy/built-in.o drivers/pci/built-in.o
> drivers/power/battery/built-in.o drivers/power/built-in.o
> drivers/power/fuel_gauge/built-in.o drivers/power/mfd/built-in.o
> drivers/power/pmic/built-in.o drivers/serial/built-in.o
> drivers/spi/built-in.o drivers/usb/eth/built-in.o
> drivers/usb/gadget/built-in.o drivers/usb/host/built-in.o
> drivers/usb/musb-new/built-in.o drivers/usb/musb/built-in.o
> drivers/usb/phy/built-in.o drivers/usb/ulpi/built-in.o fs/built-in.o
> lib/built-in.o lib/libfdt/built-in.o net/built-in.o test/built-in.o
> --end-group
> /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/u-boot-2014.01/arch/arm/lib/eabi_compat.o
> -L /usr/lib/gcc/armv7hl-suse-linux-gnueabi/4.8 -lgcc -Map u-boot.map -o
> u-boot
> [ 178s] ld.bfd: u-boot: could not find output section .gnu.hash
> [ 178s] ld.bfd: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output
> [ 178s] Makefile:556: recipe for target 'u-boot' failed
> [ 178s] make: *** [u-boot] Error 1

Looks more like an issue with the linker script used by u-boot. .gnu.hash
is simply what recent linkers produce by default - you could try
if using -Wl,--hash-style=sysv works around the issue, but it would still
point to a linker script bug IMHO (or a bug in binutils, not gcc).

Richard.

>
> https://build.opensuse.org/package/live_build_log/home:a_faerber:branches:Base:System/u-boot-colibrit20iris/openSUSE_Factory_ARM/armv7l
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
>
>

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