On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 17:55 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 09:41:47AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > 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. > >... > > Is there any specific reason why it's not done in the upstream kernel? Isn't it? I thought it was. Or maybe we were only doing that before we added MMU support. I remember the exception tables complicate matters a little. -- dwmw2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
