Hi guys, On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 04:11:15AM +0000, Michael Cree wrote: > On 18/03/2013, at 10:48 AM, Will Deacon wrote: > > Due to all of the goodness being packed into today's kernels, the > > resulting image isn't as slim as it once was. > > > > In light of this, don't pass -msmall-data to the tools, which > > results in > > link failures due to impossible relocations when compiling anything > > but > > the most trivial configurations. > > I think many of us have been using -mlarge-data when compiling with > gcc-4.6 or later so maybe it is time to get the change upstream. > > The interesting thing is that the kernel still compiles fine with > gcc-4.5 and the relocation errors only appear if compiling with > gcc-4.6 or later. I had asked before on this forum what had changed > with gcc-4.6 that results in the extra usage of the small data area > but never got an answer. I am still curious to know. > > BTW, the phrase "to the tools" in the commit message makes me think > immediately of the tools directory (containing perf, etc.) which is > not what is intended. > > Matt: Are you able to collect up this and the other patches of Will > and get them sent to Linus? I noticed Matt agreed to this, but I was dropped from CC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/25/486 Any chance you could send the patches on please? Thanks, Will -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-alpha" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
