[build] Work around stray sections introduced by some binutils versions

Some versions of GNU ld (observed with binutils 2.36 on Arch Linux)
introduce a .note.gnu.property section marked as loadable at a high
address and with non-empty contents.  This adds approximately 128MB of
garbage to the BIOS .usb disk images.

Fix by using a custom linker script for the prefix-only binaries such
as the USB disk partition table and MBR, in order to allow unwanted
sections to be explicitly discarded.

Reported-by: Christian Hesse <mail@eworm.de>
Tested-by: Christian Hesse <mail@eworm.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
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Michael Brown
2021-02-15 09:54:03 +00:00
parent 83516ba7f0
commit 1b99ba2a93
2 changed files with 33 additions and 7 deletions

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/* -*- ld-script -*- */
/*
* Linker script for prefix-only binaries (e.g. USB disk MBR)
*
*/
SECTIONS {
.prefix 0x0 : AT ( 0x0 ) {
*(.prefix)
}
/DISCARD/ : {
*(.comment)
*(.comment.*)
*(.note)
*(.note.*)
*(.eh_frame)
*(.eh_frame.*)
*(.rel)
*(.rel.*)
*(.einfo)
*(.einfo.*)
*(.discard)
*(.discard.*)
}
}