Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755804AbZIVPbx (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:31:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753731AbZIVPbw (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:31:52 -0400 Received: from BISCAYNE-ONE-STATION.MIT.EDU ([18.7.7.80]:33170 "EHLO biscayne-one-station.mit.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753598AbZIVPbw (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:31:52 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:29:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Abbott X-X-Sender: tabbott@dr-wily.mit.edu To: Mike Frysinger cc: Sam Ravnborg , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Bryan Wu , uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] blackfin: Cleanup linker script using new linker script macros. In-Reply-To: <8bd0f97a0909161337v6edbe204wfd83b4c3118b3a27@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <1252292753-11792-1-git-send-email-tabbott@ksplice.com> <8bd0f97a0909152013oe652087gf5cd227a1997a5b3@mail.gmail.com> <20090916202655.GA17153@merkur.ravnborg.org> <8bd0f97a0909161337v6edbe204wfd83b4c3118b3a27@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="-1257051904-1216702761-1253630140=:15595" Content-ID: X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.00 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1862 Lines: 44 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. ---1257051904-1216702761-1253630140=:15595 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Content-ID: On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 16:26, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:58:01AM -0400, Tim Abbott wrote: > >> OK. =A0I guess we should plan to modify the INIT_DATA_SECTION macro to= add > >> another argument specifying an alignment level for .init.ramfs. =A0It'= d be > >> inconvenient to add that right now since there are a lot of patches in > >> linux-next or otherwise in flight that introduce uses of > >> INIT_DATA_SECTION, and those patches would all be broken by changing t= his > >> now. =A0Once the dust settles on that for this release, I'll submit a = patch > >> adding said argument to INIT_DATA_SECTION. > > > > But this is all discarded during runtime so the added alignment has no = cost in the end - no? >=20 > once things are booted, there should be no difference. but > storage/boot costs increase (you have to store/extract/copy that extra > data). you know how miserly we embedded people like to be ;). OK, so how do you want to do this? The options I see are: (1) we merge this patch now, and add the new alignment argument for -rc2 (2) we add the alignment argument sometime after -rc1 and then merge this= =20 for -rc2 =09-Tim Abbott ---1257051904-1216702761-1253630140=:15595-- -- 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/