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From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org>,
	paulus@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: history of extratext sections?
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:40:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4721FC6B.8010006@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1193409099.16168.31.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>

David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 05:57 -0400, Robin Getz wrote:
>> Is this section still used on PPC, or can the entire support for
>> extratext be removed?
> 
> I think it can die.
> 

Agreed.   For history, see this:

http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-September/019734.html

and

http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-September/019736.html

where Arnd says:

> The users of the ppc64 function in_kernel_text() can probably be converted
> to the generic is_kernel_text() function.
> 
> 	Arnd <><

and

http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-September/019751.html

Where Paul said:

>> And I assume that the obvious mappings can take place (ie, that
>> "pmac.text" can just be placed in regular .text, etc), right?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Paul.

HTH,
jdl


  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-26 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-24 12:36 history of extratext sections? Robin Getz
2007-10-24 16:19 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-10-26  9:57 ` Robin Getz
2007-10-26 14:31   ` David Woodhouse
2007-10-26 14:40     ` Jon Loeliger [this message]
2007-10-26 19:43       ` [patch] remove support for un-needed _extratext section Robin Getz
2007-10-29 22:22         ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-30  0:11           ` Robin Getz

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