Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Feb 2016 19:56:06 +0100 | From | "Luis R. Rodriguez" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC v2 3/7] firmware: port built-in section to linker table |
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On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 10:12:50AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Fri, 2016-02-19 at 05:45 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > This ports built-in firmware to use linker tables, > > this replaces the custom section solution with a > > generic solution. > > > > This also demos the use of the .rodata (SECTION_RO) > > linker tables. > > > > Tested with 0 built-in firmware, 1 and 2 built-in > > firmwares successfully. > > I think we'd do better to rip this support out entirely. It just isn't > needed; firmware can live in an initramfs and don't even need *any* > actual running userspace support to load it from there these days, do > we?
I think this is reasonable if and only if we really don't know of anyone out there not able to use initramfs. I'm happy to rip it out.
Luis
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