On 18 September 2015 at 07:30, Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a follow up to the series I sent out a week ago: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bios.edk2.devel/2162 > > These two patches only address the special case in GenFw for ARM where it > allows sections that are not aligned to the PE/COFF global section alignment, > to interoperate with a size optimization in RVCT that emits sections at an > offset that is not aligned to their own alignment. This violates the PE/COFF > spec, and complicates the creation of DXE runtime modules with 4 KB section > alignment. > > As it turns out, this optimization can be disabled by passing the > --no_legacyalign command line option to the RVCT linker, so instead of > patching things up, this time I simply disable the optimization. > > Patch #1 removes the optimization from the 64-bit ELF code, since RVCT > is 32-bit only. > > Patch #2 disables the optimization, and removes the implementation of > the special case from the 32-bit ELF code. > > Anyone with access to RVCT able to test this? I would highly appreciate it. >
OK, I managed to get access to RVCT myself, and gave this a spin. As I had hoped, just removing the workaround in GenFw breaks the build for RVCTLINUX, and I can get it working correctly again by adding the --no_legacyalign linker switch. _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel
