On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:19:30 -0600, Tom Rini wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> This series builds on top of what Beleswar Padhi did in [1]. While
> there's still discussion about the mkimage related parts, the linker
> portion appears to the reliable path forward. An alternative that I had
> mentioned before, and was part of previous discussions on this topic[2]
> is in the end I believe not reliable enough. While we can take an output
> file and pad it to where we think it needs to be, ultimately the linker
> needs to place the symbol where we want it and if that isn't where we
> pad to, we have a different problem. So what this series does (but each
> commit message elaborates on the arch-specific linker scripts being
> inconsistent) is make sure the linker script will place the required
> symbol at 8-byte alignment, and then also use an ASSERT to fail the
> build if this would not be true due to some unforseen event.
>
> [...]
Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!
[01/10] Makefile: Have binary_size_check report only first match of
_image_binary_end
commit: 90efb8d394de9df1ae2c20f5e25ffc2009dc7ec5
[02/10] arm: Update linker scripts to ensure appended device tree is aligned
commit: 8b0ebe054bb3334c6ca9bed018360b08d4ddc7a4
[03/10] m68k: Update linker scripts to ensure appended device tree is aligned
commit: dac67bf0bee168de8f43050fe9b1d776de1ee00f
[04/10] microblaze: Update linker scripts to ensure appended device tree is
aligned
commit: 2e52030584d069b702f8367ddd34b3a65f522806
[05/10] mips: Update linker scripts to ensure appended device tree is aligned
commit: b220a43f5ae69f1b258976691fe70414c4fc2259
[06/10] nios2: Update linker scripts to ensure appended device tree is aligned
commit: 546d84ca0cb367240c93aa3e3492be4dccf85332
[07/10] powerpc: Update linker scripts to ensure appended device tree is aligned
commit: 87d3780ebc242e28a180606f72335ce37d8bcca1
[08/10] riscv: Update linker scripts to ensure appended device tree is aligned
commit: f150843499b3139c2358f5659411571399902d4a
[09/10] sandbox: Update linker scripts to ensure appended device tree is aligned
commit: 94b81451890f42b422bb13b03e2c1034b9bfb43d
[10/10] x86: Update linker scripts to ensure appended device tree is aligned
commit: 410d31bae4b863eabd70adb22a0c9976bfe4fee3
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Tom
