> Some times gcc may generate data that is then used within code that may > be part of an efi runtime section. That data could be jump tables, > constants or strings. > > In order to make sure we catch these, we need to ensure that gcc emits > them into a section that we can relocate together with all the other > efi runtime bits. This only works if the -ffunction-sections and > -fdata-sections flags are passed and the efi runtime functions are > in a section that starts with ".text". > > Up to now we had all efi runtime bits in sections that did not > interfere with the normal section naming scheme, but this forces > us to do so. Hence we need to move the efi_loader text/data/rodata > sections before the global *(.text*) catch-all section. > > With this patch in place, we should hopefully have an easier time > to extend the efi runtime functionality in the future. > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <[email protected]>
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