The support of PROPERTY_LINKER_SCRIPT_DEFINES has been broken since
the transition to CMake in 12f8f76165.
The intention was probably to allow users / projects to adjust
PROPERTY_LINKER_SCRIPT_DEFINES by setting a CMake cache variable.
The implementation tests for the CMake variable (local scope or cache)
PROPERTY_LINKER_SCRIPT_DEFINES, but it never uses such CMake variable.
Instead it uses a CMake global property named
PROPERTY_LINKER_SCRIPT_DEFINES. CMake variables and CMake global
properties are two very different things, and therefore the current
implementation has never worked. The fact that no one has never noticed
this flaw, means that the feature has never been used as intended.
Simplify the code by removing the use of the global CMake property and
instead set the value of the property on the linker script
pre-processing invocation.
Signed-off-by: Torsten Rasmussen <Torsten.Rasmussen@nordicsemi.no>
Differently from other libraries, which are included whole in the final
Zephyr ELF, libkernel.a itself isn't. Assuming this is intended to
enable optimisations (if it isn't, this patch will break things) - linker
can remove parts of the kernel that are not used by the application.
However, when considering Linkable Loadable Extensions (llext), this
optimisations can be counterproductive: for instance, syscalls that are
not used by the application won't be available for extensions. It won't
matter if someone "EXPORT_SYMBOL" for them, or even try to keep them
using LINKER_KEEP, they'll be gone.
To avoid that, this patches includes, when CONFIG_LLEXT=y, libkernel.a
inside the linker "whole-archive" block. This ends up making it consider
libkernel.a as a library whose all symbols should be kept. Note this
doesn't mean that all symbols will be there - things compiled out via
Kconfig will naturally still be out.
Signed-off-by: Ederson de Souza <ederson.desouza@intel.com>
Use iterable sections to handle devices list. This simplifies devices
implementation by using standard APIs.
Signed-off-by: Gerard Marull-Paretas <gerard.marull@nordicsemi.no>
Xtensa toolchain has its own linker, xt-ld, which is based on
binutils' ld. There are, of course, Xtensa specific options.
But mostly it is based on old version of ld. It would be
better to detach it from the ld profile to avoid any
incompatible changes there.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Leung <daniel.leung@intel.com>
