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From: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] build system: section garbage collection for vmlinux
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:18:31 +0100
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On Tuesday 11 September 2007 22:47, Daniel Walker wrote:
> 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) .. 

I did exactly that. I focused on x86_64.

Of course, section name fixes cannot be done per-arch, as they
are scattered across entire tree.

Apart from that, it was x86_64 only.

By now, I also have patches for i386 in hand too.
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