[Buildroot] [PATCH] uboot: Use "mdbtrick" target when building elf for ARC

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sun Jun 12 19:40:40 UTC 2016


Hello,

On Fri, 27 May 2016 20:51:41 +0300, Zakharov Vlad wrote:
> By default position independent executables (PIE) are generated
> when building U-Boot elf target. MetaWare debugger doesn't support
> PIE (position-independent executable).
> 
> In order to allow MDB load and run U-Boot elf, we need to do a
> special trick, called "mdbtrick".
> 
> This special build target is used to fake generated U-Boot elf by:
>     1. Reset PIE flag in ELF header
>     2. Strip all debug information from elf
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zakharov Vlad <vzakhar at synopsys.com>
> ---
>  boot/uboot/uboot.mk | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

Applied to master, thanks.

Thomas
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