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Message-Id: <1189630353.20371.28.camel@imap.mvista.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:52:33 -0700
From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com>
To: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] build system: section garbage collection for
vmlinux
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 21:18 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 September 2007 22:47, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 21:07 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > > This patch is needed for --gc-sections to work, regardless
> > > of which final form that support will have.
> > >
> > > This patch renames .text.xxx and .data.xxx sections
> > > into .xxx.text and .xxx.data, respectively.
> >
> > I think you'll have better luck with this if you focus on a single
> > architecture (i386 would be best) ..
>
> I did exactly that. I focused on x86_64.
>
> Of course, section name fixes cannot be done per-arch, as they
> are scattered across entire tree.
This is want I'm talking about .. Why can't you do this per
architecture?
Daniel
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