linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/purgatory: Omit use of bin2c

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Date:   Fri, 29 Jul 2022 23:02:17 +1000
From:   Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@...erman.id.au>
To:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc:     Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>,
        "Russell King (Oracle)" <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>,
        Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Helge Deller <deller@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/purgatory: Omit use of bin2c

On Mon, 25 Jul 2022 10:56:19 +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> The .incbin assembler directive is much faster than bin2c + $(CC).
> 
> Do similar refactoring as in commit 4c0f032d4963 ("s390/purgatory:
> Omit use of bin2c").
> 
> Please note the .quad directive matches to size_t in C (both 8 byte)
> because the purgatory is compiled only for the 64-bit kernel.
> (KEXEC_FILE depends on PPC64).
> 
> [...]

Applied to powerpc/next.

[1/1] powerpc/purgatory: Omit use of bin2c
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/9257971377e2fe6e82f41f688651a82a2f160a88

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