Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:14:59 -0500 (EST) | From | Nicolas Pitre <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/7] inflate pt1: refactor boot-time inflate code |
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On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 08:56:26PM +0000, Russell King wrote: > > There's a comment at the top of arch/arm/boot/compressed/misc.c which > > describes the use of the inflate code on ARM - for the kernel it's a > > special case where the decompressor is run from ROM. > > > > There's also another twist to it though - our relocatable zImage > > requires us to build all files in the executable part of zImage > > without _any_ static variables. If there's one or more static > > variables, this feature breaks horribly (and silently in the non- > > relocated cases.) > > I think I addressed all those issues last time around, and none of > them should be present in this batch anyway. But it's possible I've > missed something. If you'd like, I can send the whole set to you for > testing.
Just make sure that, once compiled, none of the related object files have a non-zero data size when the "size" command is used on them.
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