64Mbytes on Sandpoint-X3B

Tom Rini trini at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Jun 1 04:25:40 EST 2002


On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 02:18:57PM -0400, Mark A. Greer wrote:
> Tom Rini wrote:
>
> > > I dunno guys, I think the compiler usually optimizes that all away and you
> > > should never see "openfirmware".  I don't recall ever seeing it print out.  I
> > > think something fishy is going on...
> >
> > Er, first, it becomes:
> > if (1)
> > So we always 'do it'.  However, all of the __openfirmware code is now
> > almost never compiled in on !CONFIG_ALL_PPC, so we never see it being
> > free'd.
>
> That was my point.

Er, but it didn't make any sense. :)
The __openfirmware code does not get optimized away, iirc.  Unless we
lose global functions which don't have any callers..

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