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<title>Switch from archive libraries to partial linking</title>
<updated>2010-11-17T20:02:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sebastien Carlier</name>
<email>sebastien.carlier@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2010-11-05T14:48:07+00:00</published>
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Before this commit, weak symbols were not overridden by non-weak symbols
found in archive libraries when linking with recent versions of
binutils.  As stated in the System V ABI, "the link editor does not
extract archive members to resolve undefined weak symbols".

This commit changes all Makefiles to use partial linking (ld -r) instead
of creating library archives, which forces all symbols to participate in
linking, allowing non-weak symbols to override weak symbols as intended.
This approach is also used by Linux, from which the gmake function
cmd_link_o_target (defined in config.mk and used in all Makefiles) is
inspired.

The name of each former library archive is preserved except for
extensions which change from ".a" to ".o".  This commit updates
references accordingly where needed, in particular in some linker
scripts.

This commit reveals board configurations that exclude some features but
include source files that depend these disabled features in the build,
resulting in undefined symbols.  Known such cases include:
- disabling CMD_NET but not CMD_NFS;
- enabling CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT but not CONFIG_QE.

Signed-off-by: Sebastien Carlier &lt;sebastien.carlier@gmail.com&gt;
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Before this commit, weak symbols were not overridden by non-weak symbols
found in archive libraries when linking with recent versions of
binutils.  As stated in the System V ABI, "the link editor does not
extract archive members to resolve undefined weak symbols".

This commit changes all Makefiles to use partial linking (ld -r) instead
of creating library archives, which forces all symbols to participate in
linking, allowing non-weak symbols to override weak symbols as intended.
This approach is also used by Linux, from which the gmake function
cmd_link_o_target (defined in config.mk and used in all Makefiles) is
inspired.

The name of each former library archive is preserved except for
extensions which change from ".a" to ".o".  This commit updates
references accordingly where needed, in particular in some linker
scripts.

This commit reveals board configurations that exclude some features but
include source files that depend these disabled features in the build,
resulting in undefined symbols.  Known such cases include:
- disabling CMD_NET but not CMD_NFS;
- enabling CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT but not CONFIG_QE.

Signed-off-by: Sebastien Carlier &lt;sebastien.carlier@gmail.com&gt;
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<title>Makefile: move all Power Architecture boards into boards.cfg</title>
<updated>2010-10-18T20:12:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wolfgang Denk</name>
<email>wd@denx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-06T07:05:45+00:00</published>
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Clean up Makefile, and drop a lot of the config.mk files on the way.

We now also automatically pick all boards that are listed in
boards.cfg (and with all configurations), so we can drop the redundant
entries from MAKEALL to avoid building these twice.

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk &lt;wd@denx.de&gt;
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Clean up Makefile, and drop a lot of the config.mk files on the way.

We now also automatically pick all boards that are listed in
boards.cfg (and with all configurations), so we can drop the redundant
entries from MAKEALL to avoid building these twice.

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk &lt;wd@denx.de&gt;
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<title>Rename TEXT_BASE into CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE</title>
<updated>2010-10-18T20:07:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wolfgang Denk</name>
<email>wd@denx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-07T19:51:12+00:00</published>
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The change is currently needed to be able to remove the board
configuration scripting from the top level Makefile and replace it by
a simple, table driven script.

Moving this configuration setting into the "CONFIG_*" name space is
also desirable because it is needed if we ever should move forward to
a Kconfig driven configuration system.

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk &lt;wd@denx.de&gt;
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The change is currently needed to be able to remove the board
configuration scripting from the top level Makefile and replace it by
a simple, table driven script.

Moving this configuration setting into the "CONFIG_*" name space is
also desirable because it is needed if we ever should move forward to
a Kconfig driven configuration system.

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk &lt;wd@denx.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Rename getenv_r() into getenv_f()</title>
<updated>2010-08-03T22:45:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wolfgang Denk</name>
<email>wd@denx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-07-24T19:55:43+00:00</published>
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While running from flash, i. e. before relocation, we have only a
limited C runtime environment without writable data segment. In this
phase, some configurations (for example with environment in EEPROM)
must not use the normal getenv(), but a special function.  This
function had been called getenv_r(), with the idea that the "_r"
suffix would mean the same as in the _r_eentrant versions of some of
the C library functions (for example getdate vs. getdate_r, getgrent
vs. getgrent_r, etc.).

Unfortunately this was a misleading name, as in U-Boot the "_r"
generally means "running from RAM", i. e. _after_ relocation.

To avoid confusion, rename into getenv_f() [as "running from flash"]

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk &lt;wd@denx.de&gt;
Acked-by: Detlev Zundel &lt;dzu@denx.de&gt;
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While running from flash, i. e. before relocation, we have only a
limited C runtime environment without writable data segment. In this
phase, some configurations (for example with environment in EEPROM)
must not use the normal getenv(), but a special function.  This
function had been called getenv_r(), with the idea that the "_r"
suffix would mean the same as in the _r_eentrant versions of some of
the C library functions (for example getdate vs. getdate_r, getgrent
vs. getgrent_r, etc.).

Unfortunately this was a misleading name, as in U-Boot the "_r"
generally means "running from RAM", i. e. _after_ relocation.

To avoid confusion, rename into getenv_f() [as "running from flash"]

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk &lt;wd@denx.de&gt;
Acked-by: Detlev Zundel &lt;dzu@denx.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Make sure that argv[] argument pointers are not modified.</title>
<updated>2010-07-04T21:55:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wolfgang Denk</name>
<email>wd@denx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-28T20:00:46+00:00</published>
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The hush shell dynamically allocates (and re-allocates) memory for the
argument strings in the "char *argv[]" argument vector passed to
commands.  Any code that modifies these pointers will cause serious
corruption of the malloc data structures and crash U-Boot, so make
sure the compiler can check that no such modifications are being done
by changing the code into "char * const argv[]".

This modification is the result of debugging a strange crash caused
after adding a new command, which used the following argument
processing code which has been working perfectly fine in all Unix
systems since version 6 - but not so in U-Boot:

int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
	while (--argc &gt; 0 &amp;&amp; **++argv == '-') {
/* ====&gt; */	while (*++*argv) {
			switch (**argv) {
			case 'd':
				debug++;
				break;
			...
			default:
				usage ();
			}
		}
	}
	...
}

The line marked "====&gt;" will corrupt the malloc data structures and
usually cause U-Boot to crash when the next command gets executed by
the shell.  With the modification, the compiler will prevent this with
an
	error: increment of read-only location '*argv'

N.B.: The code above can be trivially rewritten like this:

	while (--argc &gt; 0 &amp;&amp; **++argv == '-') {
		char *arg = *argv;
		while (*++arg) {
			switch (*arg) {
			...

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk &lt;wd@denx.de&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
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The hush shell dynamically allocates (and re-allocates) memory for the
argument strings in the "char *argv[]" argument vector passed to
commands.  Any code that modifies these pointers will cause serious
corruption of the malloc data structures and crash U-Boot, so make
sure the compiler can check that no such modifications are being done
by changing the code into "char * const argv[]".

This modification is the result of debugging a strange crash caused
after adding a new command, which used the following argument
processing code which has been working perfectly fine in all Unix
systems since version 6 - but not so in U-Boot:

int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
	while (--argc &gt; 0 &amp;&amp; **++argv == '-') {
/* ====&gt; */	while (*++*argv) {
			switch (**argv) {
			case 'd':
				debug++;
				break;
			...
			default:
				usage ();
			}
		}
	}
	...
}

The line marked "====&gt;" will corrupt the malloc data structures and
usually cause U-Boot to crash when the next command gets executed by
the shell.  With the modification, the compiler will prevent this with
an
	error: increment of read-only location '*argv'

N.B.: The code above can be trivially rewritten like this:

	while (--argc &gt; 0 &amp;&amp; **++argv == '-') {
		char *arg = *argv;
		while (*++arg) {
			switch (*arg) {
			...

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk &lt;wd@denx.de&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ppc4xx: Remove board specific linker scripts from most PPC4xx boards</title>
<updated>2009-11-02T15:29:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Roese</name>
<email>sr@denx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2009-10-27T15:20:05+00:00</published>
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All these linker scripts can be removed since the new common ppc4xx
linker script should be able to handle all of those boards.

Please test and report problems. Thanks.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese &lt;sr@denx.de&gt;
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All these linker scripts can be removed since the new common ppc4xx
linker script should be able to handle all of those boards.

Please test and report problems. Thanks.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese &lt;sr@denx.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ppc: Enable full relocation to RAM</title>
<updated>2009-10-03T08:15:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Tyser</name>
<email>ptyser@xes-inc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-21T16:20:25+00:00</published>
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The following changes allow U-Boot to fully relocate from flash to
RAM:
 - Remove linker scripts' .fixup sections from the .text section
 - Add -mrelocatable to PLATFORM_RELFLAGS for all boards
 - Define CONFIG_RELOC_FIXUP_WORKS for all boards

Previously, U-Boot would partially relocate, but statically initialized
pointers needed to be manually relocated.

Signed-off-by: Peter Tyser &lt;ptyser@xes-inc.com&gt;
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The following changes allow U-Boot to fully relocate from flash to
RAM:
 - Remove linker scripts' .fixup sections from the .text section
 - Add -mrelocatable to PLATFORM_RELFLAGS for all boards
 - Define CONFIG_RELOC_FIXUP_WORKS for all boards

Previously, U-Boot would partially relocate, but statically initialized
pointers needed to be manually relocated.

Signed-off-by: Peter Tyser &lt;ptyser@xes-inc.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ppc4xx: Remove mtsdram0() marcos and use common mtsdram() instead</title>
<updated>2009-09-28T08:46:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Roese</name>
<email>sr@denx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-24T12:10:30+00:00</published>
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Additionally some whitespace coding style fixes.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese &lt;sr@denx.de&gt;
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Additionally some whitespace coding style fixes.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese &lt;sr@denx.de&gt;
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<title>ppc4xx: Convert PPC4xx SDRAM defines from lower case to upper case</title>
<updated>2009-09-28T08:45:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Roese</name>
<email>sr@denx.de</email>
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<published>2009-09-24T11:59:57+00:00</published>
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The latest PPC4xx register cleanup patch missed some SDRAM defines.
This patch now changes lower case UIC defines to upper case. Also
some names are changed to match the naming in the IBM/AMCC users
manuals (e.g. mem_mcopt1 -&gt; SDRAM0_CFG).

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese &lt;sr@denx.de&gt;
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The latest PPC4xx register cleanup patch missed some SDRAM defines.
This patch now changes lower case UIC defines to upper case. Also
some names are changed to match the naming in the IBM/AMCC users
manuals (e.g. mem_mcopt1 -&gt; SDRAM0_CFG).

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese &lt;sr@denx.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ppc4xx: Convert PPC4xx UIC defines from lower case to upper case</title>
<updated>2009-09-28T08:45:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Roese</name>
<email>sr@denx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-24T07:55:50+00:00</published>
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The latest PPC4xx register cleanup patch missed the UIC defines.
This patch now changes lower case UIC defines to upper case.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese &lt;sr@denx.de&gt;
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The latest PPC4xx register cleanup patch missed the UIC defines.
This patch now changes lower case UIC defines to upper case.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese &lt;sr@denx.de&gt;
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