arm/qemu-armv7a: allow EXE type apps

This allows apps ELF for kernel build to use exectuable format,
which is not only smaller but also easier for debugging.

Signed-off-by: Yanfeng Liu <[email protected]>

arch/arm/src/common/Toolchain.defs

@@ -546,10 +546,14 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_PIC),y)
   # Generate an executable elf, need to ignore undefined symbols
   LDELFFLAGS += --unresolved-symbols=ignore-in-object-files --emit-relocs
 else
-  LDELFFLAGS += -r
+  ifneq ($(CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF_EXECUTABLE),y)
+    LDELFFLAGS += -r
+  endif
 endif
 
-LDELFFLAGS +=  -e main -T $(call CONVERT_PATH,$(TOPDIR)$(DELIM)libs$(DELIM)libc$(DELIM)modlib$(DELIM)gnu-elf.ld)
+ifneq ($(CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF_EXECUTABLE),y)
+  LDELFFLAGS +=  -e main -T $(call CONVERT_PATH,$(TOPDIR)$(DELIM)libs$(DELIM)libc$(DELIM)modlib$(DELIM)gnu-elf.ld)
+endif
 
 # Zig toolchain
 

arch/arm/src/qemu/Kconfig

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ config ARCH_CHIP_QEMU_CORTEXA7
 	bool "Qemu virtual Processor (cortex-a7)"
 	select ARCH_CORTEXA7
 	select ARCH_HAVE_ADDRENV
+	select ARCH_HAVE_ELF_EXECUTABLE
 	select ARCH_HAVE_LOWVECTORS
 	select ARCH_HAVE_MULTICPU
 	select ARCH_NEED_ADDRENV_MAPPING

boards/arm/qemu/qemu-armv7a/scripts/gnu-elf.ld

@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+/****************************************************************************
+ * boards/arm/qemu/qemu-armv7a/scripts/gnu-elf.ld
+ *
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.  The
+ * ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the
+ * License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+ * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.  See the
+ * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ *
+ ****************************************************************************/
+
+SECTIONS
+{
+  .text 0x80000000 :
+    {
+      _stext = . ;
+      *(.text)
+      *(.text.*)
+      *(.gnu.warning)
+      *(.stub)
+      *(.glue_7)
+      *(.glue_7t)
+      *(.jcr)
+      _etext = . ;
+    }
+
+  .init_array :
+    {
+      _sinit = .;
+      *(.init_array)
+      _einit = .;
+    }
+
+  .fini_array :
+    {
+      *(.fini_array)
+    }
+
+  .rodata :
+    {
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+      *(.rodata)
+      *(.rodata1)
+      *(.rodata.*)
+      *(.gnu.linkonce.r*)
+      _erodata = . ;
+    }
+
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+      *(.data1)
+      *(.data.*)
+      *(.gnu.linkonce.d*)
+      . = ALIGN(4);
+      _edata = . ;
+    }
+
+  .bss :
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+      _sbss = . ;
+      *(.bss)
+      *(.bss.*)
+      *(.sbss)
+      *(.sbss.*)
+      *(.gnu.linkonce.b*)
+      *(COMMON)
+      . = ALIGN(4);
+      _ebss = . ;
+    }
+
+  .got :
+    {
+      *(.got*)
+    }
+
+    /* Stabs debugging sections.    */
+
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+    .stabstr 0 : { *(.stabstr) }
+    .stab.excl 0 : { *(.stab.excl) }
+    .stab.exclstr 0 : { *(.stab.exclstr) }
+    .stab.index 0 : { *(.stab.index) }
+    .stab.indexstr 0 : { *(.stab.indexstr) }
+    .comment 0 : { *(.comment) }
+    .debug_abbrev 0 : { *(.debug_abbrev) }
+    .debug_info 0 : { *(.debug_info) }
+    .debug_line 0 : { *(.debug_line) }
+    .debug_pubnames 0 : { *(.debug_pubnames) }
+    .debug_aranges 0 : { *(.debug_aranges) }
+}