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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

  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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