MIPS: Use Makefile.postlink to insert relocations into vmlinux
authorMatt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgtec.com>
Thu, 10 Nov 2016 10:02:13 +0000 (10:02 +0000)
committerRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Tue, 3 Jan 2017 15:34:37 +0000 (16:34 +0100)
commit44079d3509aee89c58f3e4fd929fa53ab2299019
tree8ab4c5c497f6568b0729889e24005bad459145e6
parent096a0de427ea333f56f0ee00328cff2a2731bcf1
MIPS: Use Makefile.postlink to insert relocations into vmlinux

When relocatable support for MIPS was merged, there was no support for
an architecture to add a postlink step for vmlinux. This meant that only
invoking a target within the boot directory, such as uImage, caused the
relocations to be inserted into vmlinux. Building just the vmlinux
target would result in a relocatable kernel with no relocation
information present.

Commit fbe6e37dab97 ("kbuild: add arch specific post-link Makefile")
recified this situation, so MIPS can now define a postlink step to add
relocation information into vmlinux, and remove the additional steps
tacked onto boot targets.

Signed-off-by: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgtec.com>
Tested-by: Steven J. Hill <steven.hill@cavium.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14554/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
arch/mips/Makefile
arch/mips/Makefile.postlink [new file with mode: 0644]