POWERPC: enable --gc-sections and -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections

The switch from archive libraries to partial linking has introduced a
number of problems, that are non-trivial to solve.  For example, it is
no longer possible to include individual object files in the linker
script as we did before for example in the case of boards with
embedded environment to fill up the gap caused by the need to align
the environment on flash erase block boundaries.

The best (but unfortunately not easiest) approach to address this
problem is to enable -ffunction-sections (and -fdata-sections) so
we can again (and even in much finer granularity) place certain code
where we want it.  When doing this step, it seems only consequent to
also add --gc-sections which has the added benefit of reducing the
memory footprint of the U-Boot image (both in flash and in RAM).

Unfortunately, this requires changes to a lot of linker scripts.

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Cc: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Cc: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
Cc: Andy Fleming <afleming@gmail.com>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/config.mk b/arch/powerpc/config.mk
index 5bc849c5e43c8529d68ea8807f55919620ae0e18..2912604afcb1a388554736be5a3d4134153b496e 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/powerpc/config.mk
+++ b/arch/powerpc/config.mk
@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@ CROSS_COMPILE ?= ppc_8xx-
 
 STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR = 0x40000
 
-PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -mrelocatable
+PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -mrelocatable -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections
 PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -DCONFIG_PPC -D__powerpc__
-PLATFORM_LDFLAGS  += -n
+PLATFORM_LDFLAGS  += -n --gc-sections
 
 ifdef CONFIG_SYS_LDSCRIPT
 # need to strip off double quotes

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/config.mk b/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/config.mk
index 3f3d096a3b25c81bd52d18fbcf0e3f2072d63b25..66d1741cc17aad1b38aa6b9ec06c4356eec695e1 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/config.mk
+++ b/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/config.mk
@@ -25,10 +25,6 @@ PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -fPIC -meabi
 
 PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -ffixed-r2 -Wa,-me500 -msoft-float -mno-string
 
-# Enable gc-sections to enable generation of smaller images.
-PLATFORM_LDFLAGS += --gc-sections
-PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections
-
 # -mspe=yes is needed to have -mno-spe accepted by a buggy GCC;
 # see "[PATCH,rs6000] make -mno-spe work as expected" on
 # http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-04/msg00311.html