On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 11:28 PM Tom Rini <[email protected]> wrote: > > With commit 0535e46d55d7 ("scripts/dtc: Update to upstream version > v1.7.2-35-g52f07dcca47c") it is now a fatal error to U-Boot if our > device tree is not 8-byte aligned. In commit f613a6e15ef7 ("ARM: OMAP2+: > Pad SPL binary to 8-byte alignment before DTB") Beleswar Padhi explains > that we must have ALIGN(x) statements inside of a section to ensure that > padding is included and not simply that the linker address counter is > incremented. To that end, this patch: > - Aligns the final section before _end (for U-Boot) or _image_binary_end > (for xPL phases) by 8-bytes by adding '. = ALIGN(8);' to the final > section before the symbol. For SPL we need this in two places to cover > all build configurations. > - Remove now-spurious '. = ALIGN(x);' statements that were intended to > provide the above alignments. > - Ensure that we do have alignment by adding an ASSERT so that when not > aligned we fail to link (and explain why). > > Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <[email protected]> > --- > Cc: Daniel Schwierzeck <[email protected]> (maintainer:MIPS) > Cc: Ilias Apalodimas <[email protected]> > Cc: Marek Vasut <[email protected]> > Cc: Richard Henderson <[email protected]> > --- > arch/mips/cpu/u-boot-spl.lds | 6 +++++- > arch/mips/cpu/u-boot.lds | 4 +++- > 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >
Reviewed-by: Daniel Schwierzeck <[email protected]>
