the following patch was just integrated into master: commit 35382a6eeb6634c291ffb67a3c4fa7a4601a7328 Author: Gabe Black gabeblack@google.com Date: Wed Apr 2 17:57:05 2014 -0700
cbmem console: Locate the preram console with a symbol instead of a section.
On non-x86 systems, the location of the preram CBMEM console may not be in a predictable place relative to other things in the linker script. That makes it difficult to work with as its own section because the linker will complain if you try to move backwards as it lays out memory. If the console header is treated as an actual blob of memory which has to be put in the image, we'd have to predict where to put it so that it isn't before something with a lower address or after something with a higher address. Symbols, on the other hand, can be defined arbitrarily.
Change-Id: I3257b981eee0c15bb997a9f2c55a03494c6ec6f0 Signed-off-by: Gabe Black gabeblack@google.com Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/193164 Reviewed-by: Tom Warren twarren@nvidia.com Reviewed-by: Aaron Durbin adurbin@chromium.org Commit-Queue: Gabe Black gabeblack@chromium.org Tested-by: Gabe Black gabeblack@chromium.org (cherry picked from commit a492761c27076bcac080013d509ae4aafd6dc3e3) Signed-off-by: Isaac Christensen isaac.christensen@se-eng.com Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/7013 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Ronald G. Minnich rminnich@gmail.com
See http://review.coreboot.org/7013 for details.
-gerrit