Re: [PATCH 0/4] build system: section garbage collection for vmlinux

Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-13T18:34:33Z

Hi Abhisshek.

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 11:56:14PM +0530, Abhishek Sagar wrote:
> On 9/12/07, Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Patches were run-tested on x86_64, and likely do not work on any other arch
> > (need to add KEEP() to arch/*/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S for each arch).
>
> This is good stuff. I had been using a ported variant of this
> optimization for ARM on quite an older 2.6 kernel for a while now. I
> derived that port from:
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/4/169
>
> With some tweaks it worked for me.
Could you post your tweaked version - against an older kernel is OK.

Sam