From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Manuel Lauss <mano@roarinelk.homelinux.net>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.26-gitX: insane number of section headers
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:08:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080716110848.GB8206@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080716110357.GA5093@roarinelk.homelinux.net>
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 01:03:57PM +0200, Manuel Lauss wrote:
> > I consider that an experimental commit. It's meant to solve the problems
> > we're having on a few very large compilation units with the limited length
> > of branches. But if the cure turns out to be worse than the illness I'm
> > ready to pull it again.
>
> If it fixes bugs for people, then by all means leave it in. I was just
> curious because my self-written bootloader complained about it.
I wonder why your bootloader cares about sections. Normally a bootloader
only ever should think about segments and the number of segments the
sections are getting mapped to should be unchanged by my patch.
> Thanks for the explanation.
Immer doch :-)
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-16 11:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-16 7:52 2.6.26-gitX: insane number of section headers Manuel Lauss
2008-07-16 8:15 ` Manuel Lauss
2008-07-16 10:59 ` Ralf Baechle
2008-07-16 11:03 ` Manuel Lauss
2008-07-16 11:08 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2008-07-16 11:28 ` Manuel Lauss
2008-07-24 10:03 ` Atsushi Nemoto
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