Re: [PATCH] Fix booting some PPC32 machines

[Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>]

Tom Rini writes:

> Hello.  The following patch fixes booting on some PPC32 machines with
> OpenFirmware, when booted without the aid of an additional bootloader.
> The problem is that the linker script for the 'zImage' type targets was
> put into the list of dependancies which objcopy would parse as a list of
> files to copy into the resulting image.  The fix is to make the phony
> zImage targets depend on the linker script.

I don't like this part of the fix:

>  $(images)/vmlinux.initrd.elf-pmac: $(obj)/image.initrd.o $(NEWWORLDOBJS) \
> -				   $(LIBS) $(obj)/note $(boot)/ld.script
> +				   $(LIBS) $(obj)/note
>  	$(call cmd,gen-elf-pmac)

because the linking process (gen-elf-pmac) really does depend on
ld.script.  Since gen-elf-pmac uses $<, not $^, it should be OK with
the ld.script in the dependencies.  Did you verify that there was a
problem with this rule or did you just rip out all of the ld.script
dependencies?

Similarly we need the ld.script dependency in here:

> -$(images)/zImage.chrp: $(CHRPOBJS) $(obj)/image.o $(LIBS) $(boot)/ld.script
> +$(images)/zImage.chrp: $(CHRPOBJS) $(obj)/image.o $(LIBS)
>  	$(call cmd,gen-chrp)
> -$(images)/zImage.initrd.chrp: $(CHRPOBJS) $(obj)/image.initrd.o $(LIBS) $(boot)/ld.script
> +$(images)/zImage.initrd.chrp: $(CHRPOBJS) $(obj)/image.initrd.o $(LIBS)
>  	$(call cmd,gen-chrp)

Here, gen-chrp does have a problem because it uses $^, but it looks to
me that with a minor change it could just use $< and avoid the
problem.

The other places where you have removed ld.script from the
dependencies look OK to me.

Regards,
Paul.