Re: [PATCH v1 0/7] tools: add linker table userspace sandbox

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

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On August 20, 2016 9:59:59 PM PDT, Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 11:57:18PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
>> On 08/19/2016 04:41 PM, mcgrof@kernel.org wrote:
>> > Please let me know if there are any issue or questions.
>> 
>> Only that this has been the majority of the traffic on the linux-sh
>> mailing list for over a month and I'm still not sure why anyone
>should care.
>> 
>> I have no idea what problem it solves, despite reading a couple dozen
>> messages in the thread, and the most recent two 0/x intro messages.
>Its
>> purpose seems to be ensuring that lld.llvm.org has more work to do if
>it
>> ever wants to build the kernel without binutils?
>> 
>> I also am not certain why every revision of it is cc'd to linux-sh.
>Is
>> it generic linker infrastructure change, or is it something that
>affects
>> this architecture specifically? As far as I can tell nothing in this
>> most recent 7-patch series touches arch/sh at all, you just cc'd our
>> list because you think the work you're doing is _important_, not that
>> it's specifically relevant to us.
>
>Incidentally I'm happy to have been CC'd since this infrastructure is
>_really_ nice for doing things generically with device tree. The
>ability to add new linker-section-based tables without having to
>manually hack up linker script templates will make it so we can do
>things like adding tables for cache controllers or mmus (that are
>needed quite early in init and can't go through the platform device
>system).
>
>BTW we kinda lucked out that there was already the linker table
>infrastructure for cpu enable methods for smp; this patch series makes
>it so future stuff doesn't have to rely on luck or invasive changes.
>
>Rich

Incidentally, I want to use this for the RAID algorithms.
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