[PATCH 2/2] FRV: Remove the .gnu.build-id note when producing theloadable image

From: David Howells
Date: Thu Dec 15 2011 - 06:11:53 EST


Remove the .gnu.build-id note when producing the loadable image as this is
marked Allocatable in the ELF section table and is marked as being loaded at
address 0 if the linker is recent enough to generate it:

[ 1] .note.gnu.build-i NOTE 00000000 004000 000024 00 A 0 0 4

This is a problem for objcopying the vmlinux file to the loadable image file as
the objcopy -O binary starts writing the file from the base address of the
lowest entry in the ELF program headers table:

LOAD 0x004000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00024 0x00024 R 0x4000
LOAD 0x008000 0xc0000000 0xc0000000 0x2a6138 0x2c9e8c RWE 0x4000
NOTE 0x004000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00024 0x00024 R 0x4

The kernel actually resides at 0xc0000000 and so objcopy pads the output file
between the note (at 0) and the kernel, resulting in a 3.3GB file - which
confuses things like TFTP and RedBoot (when loading raw binary data).

The old linker - which doesn't produce this note - shows this:

LOAD 0x001000 0xc0000000 0xc0000000 0x2aa260 0x2aaa54 RWE 0x1000
LOAD 0x2ab000 0xc02ac000 0xc02ac000 0x00000 0x21d8c RW 0x1000

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

arch/frv/boot/Makefile | 10 ++++++----
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)


diff --git a/arch/frv/boot/Makefile b/arch/frv/boot/Makefile
index 6ae3254..6359c49 100644
--- a/arch/frv/boot/Makefile
+++ b/arch/frv/boot/Makefile
@@ -31,19 +31,21 @@ Image: $(obj)/Image

targets: $(obj)/Image

+REMOVE_SECTIONS := -R .note -R .comment -R .note.gnu.build-id
+
$(obj)/Image: vmlinux FORCE
- $(OBJCOPY) -O binary -R .note -R .comment -S vmlinux $@
+ $(OBJCOPY) -O binary $(REMOVE_SECTIONS) -S vmlinux $@

#$(obj)/Image: $(CONFIGURE) $(SYSTEM)
-# $(OBJCOPY) -O binary -R .note -R .comment -g -S $(SYSTEM) $@
+# $(OBJCOPY) -O binary $(REMOVE_SECTIONS) -g -S $(SYSTEM) $@

bzImage: zImage

zImage: $(CONFIGURE) compressed/$(LINUX)
- $(OBJCOPY) -O binary -R .note -R .comment -S compressed/$(LINUX) $@
+ $(OBJCOPY) -O binary $(REMOVE_SECTIONS) -S compressed/$(LINUX) $@

bootpImage: bootp/bootp
- $(OBJCOPY) -O binary -R .note -R .comment -S bootp/bootp $@
+ $(OBJCOPY) -O binary $(REMOVE_SECTIONS) -S bootp/bootp $@

compressed/$(LINUX): $(LINUX) dep
@$(MAKE) -C compressed $(LINUX)

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