On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 05:20:53PM +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Commit 7653942b10e9e ("common/env_embedded.c: drop support for
> CONFIG_SYS_USE_PPCENV") dropped the .ppcenv section which was
> used in linking scripts to allow fine placement of embedded
> environment sections.
>
> This implies that GCC randomly places objects from env/embedded.o
> and environment is not guaranteed to be located at the correct address:
>
> 04003df8 g F .text 00000038 mii_init
> 04004000 g O .text 00000004 env_size
> 04004004 g O .text 00002000 environment
> 04006004 g F .text 00000040 .hidden __lshrdi3
>
> This patch restores this capability by allocating each object marked
> with __UBOOT_ENV_SECTION__ into a different section. Hence
> 'environment' will be alone in .text.environment, allowing a
> fine placement in u-boot.lds with:
>
> . = DEFINED(env_offset) ? env_offset : .;
> env/embedded.o (.text.environment)
>
> Fixes: 7653942b10e9e ("common/env_embedded.c: drop support for
> CONFIG_SYS_USE_PPCENV")
> Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazz...@free-electrons.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.le...@c-s.fr>Applied to u-boot/master, thanks! -- Tom
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