Implement version information storage and retrieval for the bootrom and the osimage.

Use perl to create the version information (thereby re-creating the perl dependency and adding an svn dependency) but fall back in case of missing perl or svn
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henryk@ploetzli.ch 2009-08-28 06:40:44 +00:00
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@ -8,6 +8,18 @@ SECTIONS
bootphase1 : {
*(.startup)
*(.bootphase1)
/* It seems to be impossible to flush align a section at the
end of a memory segment. Instead, we'll put the version_information
wherever the linker wants it, and then put a pointer to the start
of the version information at the end of the section.
-- Henryk Plötz <henryk@ploetzli.ch> 2009-08-28 */
_version_information_start = .;
*(.version_information);
. = LENGTH(bootphase1) - 0x4; /* Skip ahead to the end */
LONG(_version_information_start)
} >bootphase1
bootphase2 : {