Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764177AbXIMS1B (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:27:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754179AbXIMS0x (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:26:53 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.189]:41504 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754073AbXIMS0w (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:26:52 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=UAutOQth4y7wiX5WkSQawFr7HMFsjCcAdQES2BH/b7JzGNQGlEPmEeiWNf2QFvDytpbzCVMteBf5JMdmHYxn3yHGOVJAXEMzik00uq3HHbliWUzA6MZFy6LkmbcTb0e9QmkUKv+9pdQok+NhM8PiZZ0ERPylByuHTgcW+K9yPDk= Message-ID: <863e9df20709131126n182ec6f6l2c790bae4411d79e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:56:14 +0530 From: "Abhishek Sagar" To: "Denys Vlasenko" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] build system: section garbage collection for vmlinux Cc: "Sam Ravnborg" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200709112105.34301.vda.linux@googlemail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200709112105.34301.vda.linux@googlemail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 809 Lines: 20 On 9/12/07, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > Patches were run-tested on x86_64, and likely do not work on any other arch > (need to add KEEP() to arch/*/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S for each arch). This is good stuff. I had been using a ported variant of this optimization for ARM on quite an older 2.6 kernel for a while now. I derived that port from: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/4/169 With some tweaks it worked for me. Could you also have a look at the mentioned link and see if that's a superset of what you're trying to achieve? -- Abhishek Sagar - 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/