linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] arm: use built-in byte swap function

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Message-ID: <1361367842.13482.279.camel@i7.infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:44:09 +0000
From:	"Woodhouse, David" <david.woodhouse@...el.com>
To:	Nicolas Pitre <nico@...xnic.net>
CC:	Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@...escale.com>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@...ox.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] arm: use built-in byte swap function

On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 08:36 -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> You'll have the same issue wrt the above whether or not the source
> file is C or assembly.

Hm, true. I was thinking of the code itself (which is
position-independent anyway), rather than the flags in the object file.

So just ship a .S file and for the decompressor (if we need it at all)
rebuild it just the same as we do the *other* libgcc code like ashldi3.S
etc.


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David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@...el.com                              Intel Corporation

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