MIPS: Cleanup and Fixup of compressed kernel support

 o Remove the .initrd section.  The initrd section was already handled
   when vmlinux was linked.
 o Discard .MIPS.options, .options, .pdr, .reginfo, .comment and .note
   sections.  If .MIPS.options is not removed, kernels compiled with gcc
   3.4.6 will not boot.
 o Clean up the file format.
 o Remove several other unneeded sections.

Tested with GCC 3.4.6 and 4.4.1 with and without initrd.

Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/785/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile
index e27f40bbd4e..671d3448fad 100644
--- a/arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile
+++ b/arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ $(obj)/piggy.o: $(obj)/vmlinux.$(suffix_y) $(obj)/dummy.o
 LDFLAGS_vmlinuz := $(LDFLAGS) -Ttext $(VMLINUZ_LOAD_ADDRESS) -T
 vmlinuz: $(src)/ld.script $(obj-y) $(obj)/piggy.o
         $(call if_changed,ld)
-        $(Q)$(OBJCOPY) $(OBJCOPYFLAGS) -R .comment -R .stab -R .stabstr -R .initrd -R .sysmap $@
+        $(Q)$(OBJCOPY) $(OBJCOPYFLAGS) $@
 
 #
 # Some DECstations need all possible sections of an ECOFF executable
@@ -84,14 +84,11 @@ vmlinuz.ecoff: $(obj)/../elf2ecoff $(VMLINUZ)
 $(obj)/../elf2ecoff: $(src)/../elf2ecoff.c
         $(Q)$(HOSTCC) -o $@ $^
 
-drop-sections   = .reginfo .mdebug .comment .note .pdr .options .MIPS.options
-strip-flags     = $(addprefix --remove-section=,$(drop-sections))
-
-OBJCOPYFLAGS_vmlinuz.bin := $(OBJCOPYFLAGS) -O binary $(strip-flags)
+OBJCOPYFLAGS_vmlinuz.bin := $(OBJCOPYFLAGS) -O binary
 vmlinuz.bin: vmlinuz
         $(call if_changed,objcopy)
 
-OBJCOPYFLAGS_vmlinuz.srec := $(OBJCOPYFLAGS) -S -O srec $(strip-flags)
+OBJCOPYFLAGS_vmlinuz.srec := $(OBJCOPYFLAGS) -S -O srec
 vmlinuz.srec: vmlinuz
         $(call if_changed,objcopy)