From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761831AbXILUSr (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:18:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754595AbXILUSk (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:18:40 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.177]:9990 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753794AbXILUSj (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:18:39 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=bjtx7/s9W5L78/YLxNF8FciUlgCou68GHLlmjtF54HSxUWaZiPysaKaIKqo/QvD9i3qv13ehE6ILAhQCBhjUaPhpY/r0zfdQ9g88x4j/LtRZst2cvQ78lugm8dJam4RSoFkV5PQmoy2ceGVEOLXBJqMWKAmL53B3lFckyOV0UxI= From: Denys Vlasenko To: Daniel Walker Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] build system: section garbage collection for vmlinux Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:18:31 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Sam Ravnborg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200709112105.34301.vda.linux@googlemail.com> <200709112107.53155.vda.linux@googlemail.com> <1189547259.20371.19.camel@imap.mvista.com> In-Reply-To: <1189547259.20371.19.camel@imap.mvista.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200709122118.31890.vda.linux@googlemail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. Apart from that, it was x86_64 only. By now, I also have patches for i386 in hand too. -- vda