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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/7] inflate pt1: refactor boot-time inflate code
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.


Nicolas
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