Andrew Boie 174f301147 build: simplfy how extra build steps are specified ... For various reasons its often necessary to generate certain complex data structures at build-time by separate tools outside of the C compiler. Data is populated to these tools by way of special binary sections not intended to be included in the final binary. We currently do this to generate interrupt tables, forthcoming work will also use this to generate MMU page tables. The way we have been doing this is to generatea "kernel_prebuilt.elf", extract the metadata sections with objcopy, run the tool, and then re-link the kernel with the extra data *and* use objcopy to pull out the unwanted sections. This doesn't scale well if multiple post-build steps are needed. Now this is much simpler; in any Makefile, a special GENERATED_KERNEL_OBJECT_FILES variable may be appended to containing the filenames to the generated object files, which will be generated by Make in the usual fashion. Instead of using objcopy to pull out, we now create a linker-pass2.cmd which additionally defines LINKER_PASS2. The source linker script can #ifdef around this to use the special /DISCARD/ section target to not include metadata sections in the final binary. Signed-off-by: Andrew Boie <andrew.p.boie@intel.com>		2017-05-13 14:07:09 -04:00
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common-ram.ld	net: Switch from per-iface tx thread to a unique k_poll triggered one	2017-03-09 20:33:49 +02:00
common-rom.ld	net: Renaming net_l2_init sections to net_l2	2016-12-02 12:40:53 +02:00
intlist.ld	build: simplfy how extra build steps are specified	2017-05-13 14:07:09 -04:00