* [PATCH] Use .incbin for piggy.o
@ 2003-08-21 4:44 Brian Gerst
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From: Brian Gerst @ 2003-08-21 4:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linus Torvalds; +Cc: Linux-Kernel
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Simplify creation of piggy.o (i386 arch) using .incbin instead of an ld
script.
Several other arches use the same method, and should be changed
accordingly by the respective maintainers.
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Brian Gerst
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diff -urN linux-2.6.0-test3-bk/arch/i386/boot/compressed/Makefile linux/arch/i386/boot/compressed/Makefile
--- linux-2.6.0-test3-bk/arch/i386/boot/compressed/Makefile 2003-07-27 13:06:05.000000000 -0400
+++ linux/arch/i386/boot/compressed/Makefile 2003-08-19 10:31:35.201669976 -0400
@@ -19,7 +19,4 @@
$(obj)/vmlinux.bin.gz: $(obj)/vmlinux.bin FORCE
$(call if_changed,gzip)
-LDFLAGS_piggy.o := -r --format binary --oformat elf32-i386 -T
-
-$(obj)/piggy.o: $(obj)/vmlinux.scr $(obj)/vmlinux.bin.gz FORCE
- $(call if_changed,ld)
+$(obj)/piggy.o: $(obj)/vmlinux.bin.gz FORCE
diff -urN linux-2.6.0-test3-bk/arch/i386/boot/compressed/piggy.S linux/arch/i386/boot/compressed/piggy.S
--- linux-2.6.0-test3-bk/arch/i386/boot/compressed/piggy.S 1969-12-31 19:00:00.000000000 -0500
+++ linux/arch/i386/boot/compressed/piggy.S 2003-08-19 10:31:58.172177928 -0400
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+.data
+.globl input_len, input_data, input_data_end
+input_len:
+ .long input_data_end - input_data;
+input_data:
+ .incbin "arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.gz"
+input_data_end:
diff -urN linux-2.6.0-test3-bk/arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.scr linux/arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.scr
--- linux-2.6.0-test3-bk/arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.scr 2003-07-27 13:09:42.000000000 -0400
+++ linux/arch/i386/boot/compressed/vmlinux.scr 1969-12-31 19:00:00.000000000 -0500
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-SECTIONS
-{
- .data : {
- input_len = .;
- LONG(input_data_end - input_data) input_data = .;
- *(.data)
- input_data_end = .;
- }
-}
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