Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:39:51 -0400 (EDT) | From | Tim Abbott <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] blackfin: Cleanup linker script using new linker script macros. |
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On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> 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
Both options involve two steps -- but as (1) is obviously easier for me, I assume that's what you were referring to. Thanks.
So are you going to send this to Linus? I'd be happy to do so, but I'd need your ack.
-Tim Abbott | |