Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:35:48 +0200
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] build system: section garbage collection for vmlinux
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Hi Abhisshek.

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 11:56:14PM +0530, Abhishek Sagar wrote:
> On 9/12/07, Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> 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 post your tweaked version - against an older kernel is OK.

	Sam
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