On 07/22/15 17:46, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > This series implements 4 KB section alignment for ARM, which is required > for supporting the Properties Table memory protection feature on this > architecture. > > This applies on top of the series 'BaseTools: unify all GCC linker scripts' > that I sent out earlier today.
Okay, makes sense. For patch #4: Acked-by: Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com> Thanks Laszlo > > Note that I do not have access to RVCT to test the GenFw changes, so this > may only be feasible on GCC, in which case the GenFw changes are going to > be problematic as well. However, RVCT should support GNU ld style linker > scripts these days, so hopefully it will just work ... > > Patch #1 is a simple cleanup from the copy/paste that created Elf64Convert.c > > Patch #2 changes the PE/COFF .data alignment to adhere to the global section > and file alignment. Not doing so means the resulting binary violates the > PE/COFF > spec, but the shift of .data may result in many relative relocations to be > recomputed (which is presumably the reason why the alignment is omitted here) > > Patch #3 switches to the new GCC linker scripts for ARM > > Patch #4 selects the 4 KB alignment linker script to ensure .text and .data > can > be represented by separate memory regions, allowing their permissions to be > set > to R-X and RW- respectively. > > Ard Biesheuvel (4): > BaseTools/GenFw: remove ARM and RVCT references from ELF64 code > BaseTools/GenFw: make ARM's .data adhere to PE/COFF section alignment > BaseTools/ARM: move to unified GCC linker script > ArmVirtPkg: use 4 KB section alignment for ARM DXE_RUNTIME modules > > ArmVirtPkg/ArmVirt.dsc.inc | 3 ++- > BaseTools/Conf/tools_def.template | 4 ++-- > BaseTools/Source/C/GenFw/Elf32Convert.c | 20 +++++++++++++------- > BaseTools/Source/C/GenFw/Elf64Convert.c | 17 +---------------- > 4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) > _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.01.org https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel
