linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] build system: section garbage collection for vmlinux

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Message-ID: <863e9df20709131126n182ec6f6l2c790bae4411d79e@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:56:14 +0530
From:	"Abhishek Sagar" <sagar.abhishek@...il.com>
To:	"Denys Vlasenko" <vda.linux@...glemail.com>
Cc:	"Sam Ravnborg" <sam@...nborg.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] build system: section garbage collection for vmlinux

On 9/12/07, Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com> wrote:
> Patches were run-tested on x86_64, and likely do not work on any other arch
> (need to add KEEP() to arch/*/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S for each arch).

This is good stuff. I had been using a ported variant of this
optimization for ARM on quite an older 2.6 kernel for a while now. I
derived that port from:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/4/169

With some tweaks it worked for me. Could you also have a look at the
mentioned link and see if that's a superset of what you're trying to
achieve?

--
Abhishek Sagar
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