Re: [PATCH 02/10] arm: Update linker scripts to ensure appended device tree is aligned

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 12:22:01PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 1/22/26 4:33 AM, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 12:08 AM Fabio Estevam <feste...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > RV1108 is also an ARMv7 without SPL_SEPARATE_BSS, so I believe it is
> > > also affected by this change.
> > 
> > The change below restores the boot:
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/u-boot-spl.lds b/arch/arm/cpu/u-boot-spl.lds
> > index d780a5060774..fc2b7fcb969f 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/cpu/u-boot-spl.lds
> > +++ b/arch/arm/cpu/u-boot-spl.lds
> > @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ SECTIONS
> >          .binman_sym_table : {
> >                  __binman_sym_start = .;
> >                  KEEP(*(SORT(.binman_sym*)));
> > +               . = ALIGN(8);
> >                  __binman_sym_end = .;
> >          }
> > 
> > If you agree, I can send a formal patch.
> 
> Shouldn't we instead find a way to surely align ONLY the _image_binary_end
> or __bss_end symbols instead of adding random ALIGN(8) into the linker
> scripts ?

We did that, yes. I'm not sure what Fabio is running in to here..

-- 
Tom

signature.asc
Description: PGP signature