Help with extremely basic ld linker script
Thomas Nyberg
tomnyberg@gmail.com
Mon Jan 19 17:13:00 GMT 2015
I'm writing an (extremely) simple boot sector. Right now my input
assembly file is
boot.s
---------------------------
.section .kernel
.here:
jmp .here
.skip 512 - 2 - (. - .here)
.byte 0x55
.byte 0xaa
---------------------------
I produce my boot sector by running the following commands:
> as boot.s -o boot.o
> objcopy -O binary --set-section-flags .kernel=alloc
--only-section=.kernel boot.o boot.img
My use of objcopy is a little bizarre (imo), but essentially what it
does is simply extract the literal .kernel section in the object file
and write it to another file. This results in a 512 byte file which is a
valid bootsector.
Now what I would like is to do this with a linker script. I've read
different manuals and tried quite a few things, but kept running into
issues. Is there an easy way to produce something equivalent to what my
first method does? Thanks so much for any help!
Cheers,
Thomas
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