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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Timothy Pearson <tpearson@raptorengineering.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Add gpr1 and fpu save/restore functions
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 11:59:06 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240212175906.GY19790@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <572013249.14851324.1707759979044.JavaMail.zimbra@raptorengineeringinc.com>

On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 11:46:19AM -0600, Timothy Pearson wrote:
> Interesting, that make sense.
> 
> How should we proceed from the current situation?  Bringing in libgcc seems
> like a fairly invasive change,

I have done it for *all* architectures some ten years ago.  Never found
any problem.

> should we merge this to fix the current bug
> (cannot build ppc64 kernel in size-optimized mode) and start discussion on
> bringing in libgcc as the long-term fix across multiple architectures?
> 
> My goal here is to not have to carry a downstream patch in perpetuity for
> our embedded Linux firmware, which needs to be compiled in size-optimized
> mode due to hardware Flash limitations.

There are better options than -Os, fwiw.  Some --param's give smaller
*and* faster kernels.  What exactly is best is heavily arch-dependent
though (as well as dependent on the application code, the kernel code in
this case) :-(


Segher

  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-12 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-12 16:41 [PATCH] powerpc: Add gpr1 and fpu save/restore functions Timothy Pearson
2024-02-12 17:02 ` Segher Boessenkool
2024-02-12 17:09   ` Timothy Pearson
2024-02-12 17:30     ` Segher Boessenkool
2024-02-12 17:46       ` Timothy Pearson
2024-02-12 17:59         ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2024-02-12 18:07           ` Timothy Pearson
2024-02-12 18:23             ` Segher Boessenkool
2024-02-12 18:31               ` Timothy Pearson
2024-02-13  5:23                 ` Michael Ellerman
2024-02-13  5:28                   ` Timothy Pearson

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