Re: [PATCH] Remove last reference to LDFLAGS_BLOB

[Marcelo Tosatti]

No, do not remove that initramfs_data.S section!

People with older binutils (like me) rely on it. 

Make it obsolete on 2.7.x.

On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 10:01:06PM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote:
> Nothing uses LDFLAGS_BLOB anymore, now that the arm binutils are fixed.
> 
> --
> 				Brian Gerst

> diff -urN linux-2.6.9-bk/arch/m32r/Makefile linux/arch/m32r/Makefile
> --- linux-2.6.9-bk/arch/m32r/Makefile	2004-10-18 20:34:14.000000000 -0400
> +++ linux/arch/m32r/Makefile	2004-10-19 17:40:55.614157644 -0400
> @@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
>  LDFLAGS		:=
>  OBJCOPYFLAGS	:= -O binary -R .note -R .comment -S
>  LDFLAGS_vmlinux	:= -e startup_32
> -LDFLAGS_BLOB	:= --format binary --oformat elf32-m32r
>  
>  CFLAGS += -pipe -fno-schedule-insns
>  CFLAGS_KERNEL += -mmodel=medium
> diff -urN linux-2.6.9-bk/usr/initramfs_data.S linux/usr/initramfs_data.S
> --- linux-2.6.9-bk/usr/initramfs_data.S	2003-12-17 21:59:42.000000000 -0500
> +++ linux/usr/initramfs_data.S	2004-10-19 17:41:16.191659582 -0400
> @@ -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"

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