From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: vmlinux.lds cleanup
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:33:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080225203307.GB23790@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080225095800.GB6744@cvg>
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:58:00PM +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> Hi Sam,
>
> you know I've just take a look on different architectures and I suddenly
> realized that I even can't test my changes I'm bringnin in. For example -
> xtensa arch, most of lds numeric constants could (and should) be changed
> to PAGE_SIZE and THREAD_SIZE but this requires to include additional
> heades in lds script and I'm not even sure if it link without errors...
> (actually, i'm absolutely sure there would be errors ;)
>
> I'm not sure, but maybe it would be more convenient to ask mainteiners
> fix their scripts? At least their have access to an appropriate hardware
> to test.
I have in most cases the relevant toolchains and then I manually inspect
the generated .lds file.
In other cases I just do my best to make it correct and tell in my
submisison that htis is not build tested. (This type of
info belongs below the three dasches '---').
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-25 20:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-25 9:58 Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-02-25 20:33 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2008-02-26 16:39 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
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