linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 17/24] Rename .text.reset to .text..reset.

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Message-ID: <20100301113725.7486577b@hskinnemoen-d830>
Date:	Mon, 1 Mar 2010 11:37:25 +0700
From:	Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@...el.com>
To:	Tim Abbott <tabbott@...lice.com>
Cc:	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Bjorn Wesen <bjornw@...s.com>,
	Tim Bird <tim.bird@...sony.com>,
	Anders Kaseorg <andersk@...lice.com>,
	Waseem Daher <wdaher@...lice.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/24] Rename .text.reset to .text..reset.

Hi Tim,

Tim Abbott <tabbott@...lice.com> wrote:
> How does the .text.reset section get populated on the avr32 architecture?

It doesn't. Feel free to remove it from the linker script.

> As far as I can tell, there's no code in the kernel to put anything in the 
> .text.reset section, yet the linker script places that section at the 
> start of the text section.

You're right, it's a leftover from some startup code which later got
removed.

Haavard
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