[PATCH] [POWERPC] Fix bootwrapper builds with newer gcc versions

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Sat May 3 21:01:02 EST 2008


On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 00:55 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 17:50:17 +1000
> 
> > Best would be if we could get those runtime bits linked in the module
> > itself, but I don't know enough about our toolchain to know if that's
> > easy (I suppose everything is always possible :-)
> 
> The only downside is that you'd have N copies of these
> routines, one for every module that emmited the libcalls.

Yup, so it's mostly a matter of balance, choosing which of these should
be kept in the kernel and which of these linked directly I suppose,
possibly based on usage frequency and size. A pain in the neck tho...

Ben.





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