Gabe Black (gabeblack@chromium.org) just uploaded a new patch set to gerrit, which you can find at http://review.coreboot.org/3580
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commit 4e0f3ce6a31e831870b590d62c1bf23eb5bac0e4 Author: Gabe Black gabeblack@chromium.org Date: Mon Jul 1 05:03:47 2013 -0700
ARM: Define custom ELF headers for ARM.
At least when building with the gnu toolchain, the headers the linker automatically generate save space for the actual ELF headers in one of the loadable segments. This creates two problems. First, the data you intended to be at the start of the image doesn't actually show up there, it's actually the ELF headers. Second, the ELF headers are essentially useless for firmware since there's currently nothing to tell you where they are, and even if there was, there isn't much of a reason to look at them. They're useful in userspace for, for instance, the dynamic linker, but not really in firmware.
This change adds a PHDRS construct to each of the linker scripts used on ARM which define a single segment called to_load which does not have the flag set which would tell the linker to put headers in it. The first section defined in the script has ": to_load" to tell the linker which segment to put it in, and from that point on the other sections go in there by default.
Change-Id: I24b721eb436d17afd234002ae82f9166d2fcf65d Signed-off-by: Gabe Black gabeblack@chromium.org --- src/arch/armv7/bootblock.lds | 7 ++++++- src/arch/armv7/coreboot_ram.ld | 7 ++++++- src/arch/armv7/romstage.ld | 7 ++++++- 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/arch/armv7/bootblock.lds b/src/arch/armv7/bootblock.lds index 8370396..f16e72b 100644 --- a/src/arch/armv7/bootblock.lds +++ b/src/arch/armv7/bootblock.lds @@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ OUTPUT_FORMAT("elf32-littlearm", "elf32-littlearm", "elf32-littlearm") OUTPUT_ARCH(arm)
+PHDRS +{ + to_load PT_LOAD; +} + TARGET(binary) SECTIONS { @@ -39,7 +44,7 @@ SECTIONS *(.rom.data.*); *(.rodata.*); _erom = .; - } = 0xff + } : to_load = 0xff
/DISCARD/ : { *(.comment) diff --git a/src/arch/armv7/coreboot_ram.ld b/src/arch/armv7/coreboot_ram.ld index 487f610..38eaca3 100644 --- a/src/arch/armv7/coreboot_ram.ld +++ b/src/arch/armv7/coreboot_ram.ld @@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ INCLUDE ldoptions
ENTRY(stage_entry)
+PHDRS +{ + to_load PT_LOAD; +} + SECTIONS { . = CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE; @@ -38,7 +43,7 @@ SECTIONS *(.text.*); . = ALIGN(16); _etext = .; - } + } : to_load
.ctors : { . = ALIGN(0x100); diff --git a/src/arch/armv7/romstage.ld b/src/arch/armv7/romstage.ld index 568ac1a..0555fc4 100644 --- a/src/arch/armv7/romstage.ld +++ b/src/arch/armv7/romstage.ld @@ -30,6 +30,11 @@ OUTPUT_ARCH(arm)
ENTRY(stage_entry)
+PHDRS +{ + to_load PT_LOAD; +} + SECTIONS { /* TODO make this a configurable option (per chipset). */ @@ -41,7 +46,7 @@ SECTIONS *(.text.stage_entry.armv7); *(.text.startup); *(.text); - } + } : to_load
.romdata . : { *(.rodata);