Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760479AbXIKVr7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:47:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755209AbXIKVrt (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:47:49 -0400 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([63.81.120.158]:54561 "EHLO gateway-1237.mvista.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755006AbXIKVrs (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:47:48 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] build system: section garbage collection for vmlinux From: Daniel Walker To: Denys Vlasenko Cc: Sam Ravnborg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200709112107.53155.vda.linux@googlemail.com> References: <200709112105.34301.vda.linux@googlemail.com> <200709112107.53155.vda.linux@googlemail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:47:39 -0700 Message-Id: <1189547259.20371.19.camel@imap.mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.3 (2.10.3-2.fc7) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 626 Lines: 17 On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 21:07 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > This patch is needed for --gc-sections to work, regardless > of which final form that support will have. > > This patch renames .text.xxx and .data.xxx sections > into .xxx.text and .xxx.data, respectively. I think you'll have better luck with this if you focus on a single architecture (i386 would be best) .. Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/