Messages in this thread | | | From | Mike Frysinger <> | Date | Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:30:31 -0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] blackfin: Cleanup linker script using new linker script macros. |
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On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:29, Tim Abbott wrote: > 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
doing it in two steps is OK by me and sounds like it'd be easier for you -mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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