On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 08:03:15PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > > > > > We'll still need .data.efistub for the .data pieces, but that is a > > > separate issue. > > > > You can avoid that by using an archive specification like above. i.e. > > adding > > drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a:(.data .data.*) > > to the .init.data output section will pull in just the .data input > > sections from the EFI stub into the .init.data section. > > Sure. But the ARM decompressor linker script currently discards .data > before this point in the linker script, and relies on this as a safety > net to ensure that no new .data items get added to the decompressor > binary (which runs after the stub) You should be able to use EXCLUDE_FILE to skip discarding the .data section from libstub. That also supports the archive: syntax according to the docs though I haven't tried it.
