Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 6 Jun 1996 18:15:46 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Michael Neuffer <> | Subject | Re: No atime |
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> Actually, we could do something like this. I think it was Alan Cox (or > possibly Eric Young) who first suggested that we could use the gcc > attribute feature to put certain procedure into a separate ELF section, > so that at the end of the boot sequence, those pages could be > marked as being reusable. It would require doing some GCC-specific > features, but it shouldn't require any special as or ld hacks.
Actually it was me who had that idea to reduce the kernel memory footprint by moving the detection/init/whatever code into a separate ELF section. On last years devellopers conference in Berlin I first talked with Eric and then Alan about it.
Due to the fact that almost all systems were still running a.out kernels at that time, we postponed this project to a point of time when the ELF migration would have been completed. Eventually this project got almost forgotten.
Mike
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