From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sboyd@codeaurora.org (Stephen Boyd) Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:28:22 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 0/7] Re-organize linker layouts In-Reply-To: <20110706102245.GO8286@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <20110706102245.GO8286@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: <4E15ECB6.40100@codeaurora.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 07/06/2011 03:22 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > The following series of patches are targetted at two issues: > > 1. Fixing large initramfs causing PC24 relocations to become out of > range. This fixes both modules and link-time errors. > > 2. Making the vmlinux easier to pinpoint the various section-built > data structures and inspect them later. > > For the main kernel, this allows the size of various sections to be > determined via objdump -h. This also aids objdump -d and -s usage > when asking it to target a particular section. > > For the decompressor, it means that it is now trivially possible to copy > out the compressed kernel vmlinux image by: > > arm-linux-objcopy -O binary -j .piggydata arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux \ > piggy.gz > > and thereby obtain the binary kernel image (the Image file) which was > originally used. I gave this series a test with my poison initmem patch and all looks well Tested-by: Stephen Boyd except for patch 2 as I didn't use a zImage. -- Sent by an employee of the Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum.