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+/*
+ * (C) Copyright 2003-2004
+ * Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@denx.de.
+ *
+ * See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
+ * project.
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
+ * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
+ * MA 02111-1307 USA
+ */
+
+OUTPUT_ARCH(powerpc)
+SEARCH_DIR(/lib); SEARCH_DIR(/usr/lib); SEARCH_DIR(/usr/local/lib); SEARCH_DIR(/usr/local/powerpc-any-elf/lib);
+/* Do we need any of these for elf?
+   __DYNAMIC = 0;    */
+SECTIONS
+{
+  /* Read-only sections, merged into text segment: */
+  . = + SIZEOF_HEADERS;
+  .interp : { *(.interp) }
+  .hash          : { *(.hash)		}
+  .dynsym        : { *(.dynsym)		}
+  .dynstr        : { *(.dynstr)		}
+  .rel.text      : { *(.rel.text)		}
+  .rela.text     : { *(.rela.text) 	}
+  .rel.data      : { *(.rel.data)		}
+  .rela.data     : { *(.rela.data) 	}
+  .rel.rodata    : { *(.rel.rodata) 	}
+  .rela.rodata   : { *(.rela.rodata) 	}
+  .rel.got       : { *(.rel.got)		}
+  .rela.got      : { *(.rela.got)		}
+  .rel.ctors     : { *(.rel.ctors)	}
+  .rela.ctors    : { *(.rela.ctors)	}
+  .rel.dtors     : { *(.rel.dtors)	}
+  .rela.dtors    : { *(.rela.dtors)	}
+  .rel.bss       : { *(.rel.bss)		}
+  .rela.bss      : { *(.rela.bss)		}
+  .rel.plt       : { *(.rel.plt)		}
+  .rela.plt      : { *(.rela.plt)		}
+  .init          : { *(.init)	}
+  .plt : { *(.plt) }
+  .text      :
+  {
+    /* WARNING - the following is hand-optimized to fit within  */
+    /* the sector layout of our flash chips!    XXX FIXME XXX   */
+
+    cpu/mpc5xxx/start.o          (.text)
+    cpu/mpc5xxx/traps.o          (.text)
+    lib_generic/crc32.o         (.text)
+    lib_ppc/cache.o             (.text)
+    lib_ppc/time.o              (.text)
+
+    . = DEFINED(env_offset) ? env_offset : .;
+    common/environment.o        (.ppcenv)
+
+    *(.text)
+    *(.fixup)
+    *(.got1)
+    . = ALIGN(16);
+    *(.rodata)
+    *(.rodata1)
+    *(.rodata.str1.4)
+    *(.eh_frame)
+  }
+  .fini      : { *(.fini)    } =0
+  .ctors     : { *(.ctors)   }
+  .dtors     : { *(.dtors)   }
+
+  /* Read-write section, merged into data segment: */
+  . = (. + 0x0FFF) & 0xFFFFF000;
+  _erotext = .;
+  PROVIDE (erotext = .);
+  .reloc   :
+  {
+    *(.got)
+    _GOT2_TABLE_ = .;
+    *(.got2)
+    _FIXUP_TABLE_ = .;
+    *(.fixup)
+  }
+  __got2_entries = (_FIXUP_TABLE_ - _GOT2_TABLE_) >> 2;
+  __fixup_entries = (. - _FIXUP_TABLE_) >> 2;
+
+  .data    :
+  {
+    *(.data)
+    *(.data1)
+    *(.sdata)
+    *(.sdata2)
+    *(.dynamic)
+    CONSTRUCTORS
+  }
+  _edata  =  .;
+  PROVIDE (edata = .);
+
+  . = .;
+  __u_boot_cmd_start = .;
+  .u_boot_cmd : { *(.u_boot_cmd) }
+  __u_boot_cmd_end = .;
+
+
+  . = .;
+  __start___ex_table = .;
+  __ex_table : { *(__ex_table) }
+  __stop___ex_table = .;
+
+  . = ALIGN(4096);
+  __init_begin = .;
+  .text.init : { *(.text.init) }
+  .data.init : { *(.data.init) }
+  . = ALIGN(4096);
+  __init_end = .;
+
+  __bss_start = .;
+  .bss       :
+  {
+   *(.sbss) *(.scommon)
+   *(.dynbss)
+   *(.bss)
+   *(COMMON)
+  }
+  _end = . ;
+  PROVIDE (end = .);
+}