Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:29:43 -0400 (EDT) | From | Tim Abbott <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] blackfin: Cleanup linker script using new linker script macros. |
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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. I guess we should plan to modify the INIT_DATA_SECTION macro to add > >> another argument specifying an alignment level for .init.ramfs. It'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 this > >> now. Once 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? > > 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 for -rc2
-Tim Abbott | |