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On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 08:47 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> On Jun 23, 2008, at 8:33 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>=20
> > This patch adds the logic to patch alternative sections. This is =20
> > fairly
> > straight forward, except for branches. Relative branches that jump =20
> > from
> > inside the else section to outside of it, need to be translated as =20
> > they're
> > moved, otherwise they will jump to the wrong location.
>=20
> this should really be part of the 'Introduce infrastructure for =20
> feature sections with alternatives' patch.  The two are really coupled =20
> (one doesn't make sense w/o the other).

I guess, although I did implement it this way, in two stages - it just
means the ALT_ macros are non-functional for one commit. I can respin if
you really want.

cheers

--=20
Michael Ellerman
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