[PATCH v4 11/22] Makefile: add vmbarebox build target

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Wed Jan 14 04:14:36 PST 2026


Add a build target to create vmbarebox, which provides an ELF format
version of barebox that will be used later to link into the PBL

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply at anthropic.com>
Reviewed-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
---
 Makefile | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 3b31cecc22c431a063b8d2d3c387da487b698e74..2350592cdef6cb0cab0a85a481fbf17e24d6483f 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1096,6 +1096,14 @@ barebox.fit: images/barebox-$(CONFIG_ARCH_LINUX_NAME).fit
 barebox.srec: barebox
 	$(OBJCOPY) -O srec $< $@
 
+OBJCOPYFLAGS_vmbarebox = $(call objcopy-option,--strip-section-headers,--strip-all)  \
+			 --remove-section=.comment \
+			 --remove-section=.note* \
+			 --remove-section=.gnu.hash
+
+vmbarebox: barebox FORCE
+	$(call if_changed,objcopy)
+
 quiet_cmd_barebox_proper__ = CC      $@
       cmd_barebox_proper__ = $(CC) -r -o $@ -Wl,--whole-archive $(BAREBOX_OBJS)
 
@@ -1378,7 +1386,7 @@ CLEAN_FILES +=	barebox System.map include/generated/barebox_default_env.h \
                 .tmp_version .tmp_barebox* barebox.bin barebox.map \
 		.tmp_kallsyms* compile_commands.json \
 		.tmp_barebox.o barebox.o barebox-flash-image \
-		barebox.srec barebox.efi
+		barebox.srec barebox.efi vmbarebox
 
 CLEAN_FILES +=	scripts/bareboxenv-target scripts/kernel-install-target \
 		scripts/bareboxcrc32-target scripts/bareboximd-target \

-- 
2.47.3




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