On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 02:00 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > On Wednesday 02 July 2008 01:41, James Bottomley wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 02:39 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > > The purpose of this patch is to make kernel buildable > > > with "gcc -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections". > > > This patch fixes parisc architecture. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Um ... if you look at the Makefile you'll see we already build parisc > > with -ffunction-sections; we have to: our relative jumps are too small > > to guarantee finding the stubs in large files. > > > > Since our text is -ffunction-sections compatible already, I question the > > need for transformations like this: We've been building FR-V kernels with --gc-sections for a long time, too. > In order to handle these situations uniformly, in these patches > I decided to _never_ use .text.XXXX names for sections, > effectively leaving them "reserved for gcc's use". It makes a certain amount of sense to do this uniformly for all architectures -- leaving .text.* and .data.* for GCC, and using something else whenever we manually name sections. Denys' patch for parisc would need a little more thought, but it's probably worth it to be consistent. Especially if we can move more stuff out of athe arch-specific linker scripts and into <asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h> -- dwmw2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
