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Message-ID: <4721FC6B.8010006@freescale.com> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:40:43 -0500 From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@...escale.com> To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> CC: Robin Getz <rgetz@...ckfin.uclinux.org>, paulus@...ba.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: history of extratext sections? David Woodhouse wrote: > On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 05:57 -0400, Robin Getz wrote: >> Is this section still used on PPC, or can the entire support for >> extratext be removed? > > I think it can die. > Agreed. For history, see this: http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-September/019734.html and http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-September/019736.html where Arnd says: > The users of the ppc64 function in_kernel_text() can probably be converted > to the generic is_kernel_text() function. > > Arnd <>< and http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-September/019751.html Where Paul said: >> And I assume that the obvious mappings can take place (ie, that >> "pmac.text" can just be placed in regular .text, etc), right? > > Yes. > > Paul. HTH, jdl - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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