On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 07:08:55PM +0100, Philipp Tomsich wrote:

> Recent Linux distributions (e.g. Debian 9) include cross-compilers for
> AArch64, but only for the aarch64-linux-gnu triplet only. It can thus
> be expected that users will attempt to use the system cross-compiler
> (instead of an aarch64-elf variant) to compile U-Boot for their ARMv8
> target systems.
> 
> One key differences between an aarch64-linux-gnu and an aarch64-elf
> compiler are the default settings regarding position-independent: with
> the aarch64-linux-gnu compiler, the default will create and use the
> global offset table.
> 
> This change-set adjusts the list of sections copied on ARMv8 to include
> the GOT sections. With this added, the list matches the previous setup
> for AArch32 closely.
> 
> Note that this is not an 'academic' issue, but was in fact encountered
> by our QA during testing of the RK3399-Q7 BSP and resulted in an
> early failure of the SPL stage during FDT setup.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Philipp Tomsich <philipp.toms...@theobroma-systems.com>
> Tested-by: Klaus Goger <klaus.go...@theobroma-systems.com>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org>
> Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com>

Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!

-- 
Tom

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