From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757351AbcATX1Q (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2016 18:27:16 -0500 Received: from duck.fensystems.co.uk ([212.13.204.60]:39237 "EHLO duck.fensystems.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750781AbcATX1O (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2016 18:27:14 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 622 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2016 18:27:14 EST Message-ID: <56A01524.5080508@ipxe.org> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 23:15:48 +0000 From: Michael Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , "Luis R. Rodriguez" CC: hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, luto@amacapital.net, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, jgross@suse.com, JBeulich@suse.com, joro@8bytes.org, ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com, andreyknvl@google.com, long.wanglong@huawei.com, qiuxishi@huawei.com, aryabinin@virtuozzo.com, mchehab@osg.samsung.com, valentinrothberg@gmail.com, peter.senna@gmail.com, mcgrof@suse.com, x86@kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC v1 2/8] tables.h: add linker table support References: <1450217797-19295-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> <1450217797-19295-3-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> <20160120200428.GB4769@char.us.oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <20160120200428.GB4769@char.us.oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >> + * To solve this problem linker tables can be used on Linux, it enables you to >> + * always force compiling of select features that one wishes to avoid bit-rot >> + * while still enabling you to disable linking feature code into the final >> + * kernel image or building certain modules if the features have been disabled >> + * via Kconfig. The code is derivative of gPXE linker table's solution. I missed the start of this thread. However, asking as the author of the original Etherboot/gPXE/iPXE linker table solution: please change all references from "gPXE" to "iPXE". Thanks, Michael