Re: [PATCH] Remove LDFLAGS_BLOB

[Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>]

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 04:55:29PM -0500, Brian Gerst wrote:
> > LDFLAGS_BLOB is no longer used for anything.
>
> Hi Brian.
>
> It was kept in ARM on purpose, because Russell King replied that the binutils
> in widely use for arm did not support .incbin.
>
> So rmk should ack this patch before it's getting applied.

This is useful for people who happen to be using older binutils but want
to use 2.6.

Dont remove it.

> > diff -urN linux-bk/usr/initramfs_data.S linux/usr/initramfs_data.S
> > --- linux-bk/usr/initramfs_data.S	2003-12-17 21:59:42.000000000 -0500
> > +++ linux/usr/initramfs_data.S	2004-02-20 19:18:31.250879280 -0500
> > @@ -1,28 +1,6 @@
> >  /*
> >    initramfs_data includes the compressed binary that is the
> >    filesystem used for early user space.
> > -  Note: Older versions of "as" (prior to binutils 2.11.90.0.23
> > -  released on 2001-07-14) dit not support .incbin.
> > -  If you are forced to use older binutils than that then the
> > -  following trick can be applied to create the resulting binary:
> > -
> > -
> > -  ld -m elf_i386  --format binary --oformat elf32-i386 -r \
> > -  -T initramfs_data.scr initramfs_data.cpio.gz -o initramfs_data.o
> > -   ld -m elf_i386  -r -o built-in.o initramfs_data.o
> > -
> > -  initramfs_data.scr looks like this:
> > -SECTIONS
> > -{
> > -       .init.ramfs : { *(.data) }
> > -}
> > -
> > -  The above example is for i386 - the parameters vary from architectures.
> > -  Eventually look up LDFLAGS_BLOB in an older version of the
> > -  arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile to see the flags used before .incbin was introduced.
> > -
> > -  Using .incbin has the advantage over ld that the correct flags are set
> > -  in the ELF header, as required by certain architectures.
> >  */
> >
> >  .section .init.ramfs,"a"