From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932674AbXILUxS (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:53:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759594AbXILUxJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:53:09 -0400 Received: from homer.mvista.com ([63.81.120.158]:51350 "EHLO gateway-1237.mvista.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757310AbXILUxJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:53:09 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] build system: section garbage collection for vmlinux From: Daniel Walker To: Denys Vlasenko Cc: Sam Ravnborg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200709122118.31890.vda.linux@googlemail.com> References: <200709112105.34301.vda.linux@googlemail.com> <200709112107.53155.vda.linux@googlemail.com> <1189547259.20371.19.camel@imap.mvista.com> <200709122118.31890.vda.linux@googlemail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:52:33 -0700 Message-Id: <1189630353.20371.28.camel@imap.mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.3 (2.10.3-2.fc7) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 21:18 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > On Tuesday 11 September 2007 22:47, Daniel Walker wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 21:07 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > > This patch is needed for --gc-sections to work, regardless > > > of which final form that support will have. > > > > > > This patch renames .text.xxx and .data.xxx sections > > > into .xxx.text and .xxx.data, respectively. > > > > I think you'll have better luck with this if you focus on a single > > architecture (i386 would be best) .. > > I did exactly that. I focused on x86_64. > > Of course, section name fixes cannot be done per-arch, as they > are scattered across entire tree. This is want I'm talking about .. Why can't you do this per architecture? Daniel