Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:21:39 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/6] Add support for LZO-compressed kernels for ARM |
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On 08/07/2009 01:00 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 03:55:24PM +0200, Albin Tonnerre wrote: >> That's true for the actual kernel image, but not for the bootstrap code we use >> when compiling compressed kernels. arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile uses >> libgcc, unless I'm overlooking something here: >> >> arm-unknown-linux-uclibcgnueabi-ld -EL --defsym zreladdr=0x20008000 >> --defsym initrd_phys=0x20410000 --defsym params_phys=0x20000100 -p >> --no-undefined -X >> /home/albin/x-tools/arm-unknown-linux-uclibcgnueabi/lib/gcc/arm-unknown-linux-uclibcgnueabi/4.3.2/libgcc.a >> -T arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.o >> arch/arm/boot/compressed/piggy.gzip.o arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.o -o >> arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux > > It's because libgcc appears in the wrong place in the command line, and > due to the way kbuild works, we can't get it into the right place easily. > > Linkers are sensitive to the order of archives on the command line - its > pointless having an archive as the first file argument because none of > the contained objects will ever be pulled in. > > Sam - any ideas how to solve this?
Can we use the group feature of ld for this?
-hpa
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