Re: [PATCH] BaseTools/tools_def AARCH64: disable PIE linking

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 10/25/17 11:55, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Some prebuilt GCC toolchains targeting aarch64 (e.g., the Debian Stretch
> one) will default to building PIE executables. This has been observed to
> corrupt ACPI tables built from .aslc sources, so disable PIE linking
> altogether when using the GCC toolchain to build for AARCH64.
> 
> Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> ---
>  BaseTools/Conf/tools_def.template | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/BaseTools/Conf/tools_def.template b/BaseTools/Conf/tools_def.template
> index e93c2a0bf1ef..16ef935f5ef9 100755
> --- a/BaseTools/Conf/tools_def.template
> +++ b/BaseTools/Conf/tools_def.template
> @@ -4355,7 +4355,7 @@ DEFINE GCC_DLINK2_FLAGS_COMMON     = -Wl,--script=$(EDK_TOOLS_PATH)/Scripts/GccB
>  DEFINE GCC_IA32_X64_DLINK_COMMON   = DEF(GCC_DLINK_FLAGS_COMMON) --gc-sections
>  DEFINE GCC_ARM_AARCH64_DLINK_COMMON= -Wl,--emit-relocs -nostdlib -Wl,--gc-sections -u $(IMAGE_ENTRY_POINT) -Wl,-e,$(IMAGE_ENTRY_POINT),-Map,$(DEST_DIR_DEBUG)/$(BASE_NAME).map
>  DEFINE GCC_ARM_DLINK_FLAGS         = DEF(GCC_ARM_AARCH64_DLINK_COMMON) -z common-page-size=0x20
> -DEFINE GCC_AARCH64_DLINK_FLAGS     = DEF(GCC_ARM_AARCH64_DLINK_COMMON) -z common-page-size=0x20
> +DEFINE GCC_AARCH64_DLINK_FLAGS     = DEF(GCC_ARM_AARCH64_DLINK_COMMON) -z common-page-size=0x20 -no-pie
>  DEFINE GCC_IA32_X64_ASLDLINK_FLAGS = DEF(GCC_IA32_X64_DLINK_COMMON) --entry _ReferenceAcpiTable -u $(IMAGE_ENTRY_POINT)
>  DEFINE GCC_ARM_ASLDLINK_FLAGS      = DEF(GCC_ARM_DLINK_FLAGS) -Wl,--entry,ReferenceAcpiTable -u $(IMAGE_ENTRY_POINT)
>  DEFINE GCC_AARCH64_ASLDLINK_FLAGS  = DEF(GCC_AARCH64_DLINK_FLAGS) -Wl,--entry,ReferenceAcpiTable -u $(IMAGE_ENTRY_POINT)
> 

Out of curiosity, can this be considered the completion of commit
a6b5380642c4 ("BaseTools/GCC ARM/AARCH64: Force disable PIE", 2017-05-31)?

Thanks
Laszlo