From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
discuss@x86-64.org, Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [CFT] inflate.c rework arch testing needed
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 10:31:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040319103126.A12519@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040318231006.GK11010@waste.org>; from mpm@selenic.com on Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 05:10:06PM -0600
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 05:10:06PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> I've reworked the mess that is lib/inflate.c, including:
Please don't - this will probably break the PIC decompressor on ARM.
There are un-merged patches in the pipeline which make this all work
correctly with todays toolchains - which mostly means getting rid of
all static data to make the compiler produce the right relocations.
Yes its stupid, but there seems to be no other way to do this with
the ELF toolchains we have available to us now.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
2.6 Serial core
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-19 10:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-18 23:10 [CFT] inflate.c rework arch testing needed Matt Mackall
2004-03-19 0:32 ` Jörn Engel
2004-03-19 3:09 ` Matt Mackall
2004-03-19 9:29 ` Jörn Engel
2004-03-28 7:00 ` [discuss] " Pavel Machek
2004-04-01 12:14 ` Jörn Engel
2004-03-19 10:31 ` Russell King [this message]
2004-03-19 17:16 ` Matt Mackall
2004-03-19 21:39 ` Russell King
2004-03-19 22:25 ` Matt Mackall
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