Messages in this thread | | | From | Mike Frysinger <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] Kbuild: centralize MKIMAGE and cmd_uimage definitions | Date | Wed, 7 Mar 2012 13:25:51 -0500 |
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On Wednesday 07 March 2012 12:41:52 Stephen Warren wrote: > On 03/06/2012 08:56 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Tuesday 06 March 2012 19:30:36 Stephen Warren wrote: > >> +UIMAGE_ENTRYADDR = $(shell $(NM) vmlinux | awk '$$NF == "__start" > >> {print $$1}') > > > > i feel like if we tried harder, we could automate the -e arg for all > > arches. i understand if you don't want to undertake that though. > > Yes, this might be possible. I'd guess the symbol name varies between > archs, but that can probably be taken care of.
i think we could avoid the symbol lookup. if the entry point is set correctly in the ELF, we could do: UIMAGE_ENTRYADDR = $(shell $(READELF) -h vmlinux | \ awk '$$0 ~ /Entry point address:/ { print $$NF }'
99% sure this would work for Blackfin kernel images ...
> This is probably best > left as a follow-on patch though, since it's a behavioral change, > whereas this patch is just consolidation.
of course -mike [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |